Hello, these days, it's quite straight forward to have multiple versions of R installed in parallel without them conflicting with each other. I know it works out of the box on MS Windows (just install all versions you'd like), and I know there are various tools to achieve the same on macOS. I'm on Linux, and I build R from source, so that solves it for me. What's platform are you working on? If you share that, I think you'll get 1-2-3 instructions for how to install R 4.4 pre-release from users on that operating system.
Regarding Bioc versions being tied to specific R versions: That is a design decision that goes back to day one of the Bioconductor project. It's a rather big thing to change. That said, I've always been in the camp that thinks we should move away from that model for many reasons; one is the friction added to developers, another is the friction added to end-users, and some people may be stuck with older versions of R and in no control of updating. Hope this helps, Henrik On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 7:29 PM Anatoly Sorokin <lpto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm sorry for the complaint, but do you really think it is wise to make the > new release dependent on the R version which has not released yet? > > I have a lot of R-related projects going on apart from maintaining the > Bioconductor package and I'm not comfortable installing the unreleased > version of R on my machine and spending time debugging it in the case of > possible problems. > > At the same time, I have an error, possibly caused by a new version of > GO.db package, which BioNAR is dependent upon and I can not fix it > until the R 4.4 release on the 24th of April when I would have less than a > day to fix the possible problem and fit into R CMD build and R CMD check by > the Friday April 26th. Don't you think this is a rather tight time frame? > > > Sorry once again, for the complaint. > > Cheers, > Anatoly > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:06 PM Kern, Lori via Bioc-devel < > bioc-devel@r-project.org> wrote: > > > Import update: The Bioconductor Release will be May 1 following the > > release of R 4.4 on April 24. > > > > The Bioconductor 3.18 branch will be frozen Monday April 15th. After that > > date, no changes will be permitted ever on that branch. > > > > The deadline for devel Bioconductor 3.19 for packages to pass R CMD build > > and R CMD check is Friday April 26th. While you will still be able to make > > commits past this date, This ensures any changes pushed to > > git.bioconductor.org are reflected in at least one build report before > > the devel branch will be copied to a release 3.19 branch. > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > Lori Shepherd - Kern > > > > Bioconductor Core Team > > > > Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center > > > > Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics > > > > Elm & Carlton Streets > > > > Buffalo, New York 14263 > > > > > > This email message may contain legally privileged and/or confidential > > information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or > > agent responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended > > recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, > > distribution, or use of this email message is prohibited. If you have > > received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by > > e-mail and delete this email message from your computer. Thank you. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
