.../release/... silently changes every six months or so, as does .../devel/..., so I don't see how this changes anything beyond that. It does make finding the packages a lot easier in general, and more mnemonic.
If you want to document the versions of packages used in an analysis, there's always sessionInfo() and/or a dockerfile, rite? --t > On Mar 23, 2015, at 8:38 AM, Gabe Becker <becker.g...@gene.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Fischer, Bernd < > b.fisc...@dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote: > >> >> During the production process of the paper we want to link to the >> accompanying >> BioC package that is in devel, but not yet in release. Before the first >> release, the >> link (e.g. www.bioconductor.org/<packagename>) should go to the devel >> version >> (maybe with an additional warning that it is only available in devel), >> before the >> first release of the package and should go to release afterwards. > > I understand the appeal of this, but decoupling publications from the > actual, exact versions they discuss or use seems like a relatively large > step backwards in terms of reproducibility. At the very least, I think > there is some nuance here that warrants careful consideration before we > adopt a single-silently-changing-link-per-package paradigm. > > ~G > > > > >> >> Bernd >> >> >>> On 23.03.2015, at 11:45, Sean Davis <seand...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Just so we don't lose the thoughts that have come before, here is a link >> to >>> a similar proposal from last year. >>> >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2014-February/005292.html >>> >>> Sean >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Wolfgang Huber <whu...@embl.de> wrote: >>>> >>>> I wonder whether it’d possible to have the website understand URLs like >>>> http://www.bioconductor.org/<pkgname> >>>> >>>> This could resolve to >>>> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/<pkgname>.html >>>> or >>>> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/<pkgname>.html >>>> depending on whether the package was yet released. >>>> >>>> This could be handy in papers or grants that mention packages. >>>> >>>> Wolfgang >>>> >>>> >>>> ---- >>>> Wolfgang Huber >>>> Principal Investigator, EMBL Senior Scientist >>>> Genome Biology Unit >>>> European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) >>>> Heidelberg, Germany >>>> >>>> T +49-6221-3878823 >>>> wolfgang.hu...@embl.de >>>> http://www.huber.embl.de >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > > > -- > Gabriel Becker, Ph.D > Computational Biologist > Genentech Research > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
