Note that until May 8 graph was a CRAN packge and the current version was 1.30.0. So of course CRAN binary packages built between April 26 and May 8 were built against the current CRAN version of graph, for any version of R.

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Martin Morgan wrote:

On 06/10/2011 05:46 PM, Kornelius Rohmeyer wrote:
Dear Martin,

thanks for your response.

The superclass graphBase is introduced in graph 1.30. In my
understanding the problem is that our package gMCP is build on CRAN
for R 2.12 with the package graph in version 1.30. Unfortunately
biocLite installs graph_1.28.0.zip for R 2.12.

biocLite is returning the correct package -- graph 1.28.0. graph 1.30 did
not come in to existence until the most recent release, 2011-04-13,
approximately when R-2.13 became the current release version.

CRAN is building packages with the current release, R-2.13, for which
biocLite and install.packages both (correctly) return graph 1.30.

I doubt this, i.e. CRAN is also still building packages for R 2.12 -
and is using graph 1.30 for this as far as I understand it (instead of
1.28).

I'm not intimately familiar with CRAN's build system, so perhaps I mis-spoke; Bioconductor packages are versioned in synchrony with R releases. If your package requires graph >= 1.30, specify that in the DESCRIPTION. If your users want features introduced when your package requires graph >= 1.30, direct them to use R >= 2.13.

Martin

Are there ways to make dependencies on Bioconductor less complicated?

Use the current version of R.

So you agree that it is impossible to give a reasonable instruction
install such binary packages for older versions of R like the four
month old R 2.12? (Reasonable means without manual installation of
packages in the correct versions - where the correct versions have to
be found out by the maintainer.)

Best regards, Kornelius.


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