> ... I'm on Mac OS 12.5. I've heard good things about 'rig' (The R Installation Manager; https://github.com/r-lib/rig). It can install multiple R versions in parallel on macOS, Windows, and Linux, without the different versions conflicting with each other. I recommend trying it out, because being able to run different versions of R is always useful, even if you're not a package maintainer.
/Henrik On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 8:08 PM Anatoly Sorokin <lpto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Henrik, > > thank you for the prompt reply. I'm on Mac OS 12.5. > > And regarding the linking version of Bioconductor and R my major complaint is > the timing, if R 4.4 hasn't been released yet, why not postpone this > dependency to the October release of Bioconductor? > > And it is also true that we have a lot of complaints from people working on > centrally maintained machines or HPC clusters, that they have no access to > the latest R versions. So sometimes even for demonstration purposes, we had > to install the package from the GitHub source, rather than from BiocManager. > > Cheers, > Anatoly > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 11:57 AM Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 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. 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