GEOquery is available in release (3.3), though not the most recent version. Hopefully release and not devel is being used in the edX class; the devel builds are not yet stable, but should be later today. In any case, it's early-cycle devel.
Dan ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtene...@fredhutch.org> > To: "Vincent Carey" <st...@channing.harvard.edu> > Cc: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel@r-project.org> > Sent: Sunday, May 8, 2016 8:49:09 AM > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] GEOquery for Bioc devel > Maybe. If the package does not build for many days on end, it's more than > flakiness and one wonders if the service is usable at all. > Tests that indicate this seem appropriate to me, though I agree false > positives > can be annoying. > Dan > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Vincent Carey" <st...@channing.harvard.edu> >> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtene...@fredhutch.org> >> Cc: "Kasper Daniel Hansen" <kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com>, "bioc-devel" >> <bioc-devel@r-project.org> >> Sent: Sunday, May 8, 2016 8:46:57 AM >> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] GEOquery for Bioc devel > >> Hmm. Very important piece of software so we should try to remedy this. I >> had assigned some GEOquery problems in the edX class and there were some >> people who could not get getGEO to work, but the problem seemed >> intermittent. There was a workaround posted on the support site which >> involved separate steps for assay and platform data acquisition; ultimately >> the solution data object was just made available directly. >> >> Can/should we make the build/distribution process robust to data server >> flakiness? The user may encounter intermittent problems, but the software >> should still be available IMHO. >> Reduce server-dependent tests and examples? >> >> On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fredhutch.org> >> wrote: >> >>> It has not built since the devel (3.4) builds started. Apparently GEO has >>> been pretty flaky. >>> Dan >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> > From: "Kasper Daniel Hansen" <kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com> >>> > To: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel@r-project.org> >>> > Sent: Sunday, May 8, 2016 5:54:59 AM >>> > Subject: [Bioc-devel] GEOquery for Bioc devel >>> >>> > I don't see GEOquery for Bioc devel. Is that a mistake somehow? >>> > >>> > [[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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
