Perhaps the installation instructions on each package's landing page
should explicitly specify 'version=3.10' (or whatever happens to be
the latest release) in the install() call. This avoids ambiguities
with using the latest version when the current and previous releases
are on the same version of R.

-A

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 8:25 AM Shepherd, Lori
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It looks like you are still installing release 3.9 versions of packages.  The 
> latest version is release 3.10.
>
> If you do
> BiocManager::version()
> Does it show "3.9"  or "3.10"?
>
> I'm betting "3.9"
>
> You can do
>
> BiocManager::install(version="3.10")
> BiocManager::install()
>
>
> To update all packages to 3.10 versions
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Lori Shepherd
>
> Bioconductor Core Team
>
> Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
>
> Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
>
> Elm & Carlton Streets
>
> Buffalo, New York 14263
>
> ________________________________
> From: Bioc-devel <[email protected]> on behalf of Jakob 
> Theorell <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:06 AM
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Bioc-devel] BiocManager not installing latest release version of 
> DepecheR
>
> Dear all,
> This is probably a mistake on my side, but I just now tried to install the 
> last release version of DepecheR (for which I am the maintainer), and 
> although the source package on BioConductor is 1.2, this is the text I get 
> from BiocManager when installing:
>
> Bioconductor version 3.9 (BiocManager 1.30.9), R 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
> Installing package(s) 'DepecheR'
> trying URL 
> 'https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.9/bioc/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6/DepecheR_1.0.3.tgz'
>
> This is clearly the old version, that does not contain all the updates that 
> the source package contains. Have I missed something I should have done to 
> prevent this and what can I in that case do now?
> Best regards
> Jakob Theorell, MD/PhD
> Autoimmune Neurology Group
> Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
> University of Oxford
>
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