Have a look at http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/08/gran-and-switchr-cant-send-you-back-in-time-but-they-can-send-r-sort-of.html https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/packrat/index.html
Dan ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stefano Berri" <sbe...@illumina.com> > To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtene...@fredhutch.org>, "Bernd Klaus" > <bernd.kl...@embl.de> > Cc: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel@r-project.org> > Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 2:20:12 AM > Subject: RE: [Bioc-devel] Noticed change of version for some packages in BioC > 3.2 > Thank you very much for the info. > > I didn't realised bug fixes and versions changes were allowed in release. And > it > is good to know in a month 3.2 will be frozen forever. > > Do you then have a strategy to suggest for automating download and install > packages in a very reproducible way? Am I right that if I leave package > installation to R it won't be all that reproducible, especially when > dependency > relies on CRAN packages? > > cheers > > Stefano > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dan Tenenbaum [mailto:dtene...@fredhutch.org] >> Sent: 01 March 2016 16:01 >> To: Bernd Klaus >> Cc: Berri, Stefano; bioc-devel >> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Noticed change of version for some packages in >> BioC 3.2 >> >> The main reason for packages to change in release is because of bug fixes, >> also documentation enhancements. >> >> You should not expect the versions in release to be frozen. >> Dan >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Bernd Klaus" <bernd.kl...@embl.de> >> > To: "Stefano Berri" <sbe...@illumina.com>, "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel@r- >> project.org> >> > Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 3:48:21 AM >> > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Noticed change of version for some packages in >> BioC 3.2 >> >> > Hi Stefano, >> > >> > developers are not supposed to change the package fundamentally in the >> > release branch, however small fixes are allowed to be back-ported and >> > marked by a bump of the last digit: >> > >> > http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/version-numbering/ >> > >> > (E.g. fixing typos in the vignette or updating the citation >> > information) >> > As far as I know, only the url >> > >> > >> > http://bioconductor.org/pckages/<packageName> >> > >> > is stable. >> > >> > >> > Best wishes, >> > > > > Bernd _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
