Dear Henrik, thank you very much for pointing me to the rig project. It works fine and I have two independent R versions on my machine at the moment.
Thank you, Anatoly On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 4:19 AM Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ... 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. 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