Re: [Bioc-devel] 2 candidates for BiocGenerics

2015-03-24 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi, The organism and species accessors (getters and setters) are now generic functions in BiocGenerics (>= 0.13.8). To my knowledge all the packages in devel (except rsbml) that define (or use) these accessors were modified to use these new generics. Please let me know if I forgot some. Some cl

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Fischer, Bernd
I just think there are a couple of subtleties here. I certainly don't begrudge people wanting to type less and find packages easier. But if a naive user with a default (read: release) Bioc installation goes to http://bioconductor.org/CoolAwesomePkg and see's that it is "available in bioconductor" b

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
There are still problems with completely reproducing old analyses partly due to our (current) inability to reproduce an exact version (as Martin says). But I don't think we should muddle the waters and mix URL schemas with versioning. What Wolfgang is asking for is something I think makes total s

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Gabe Becker
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Wolfgang Huber wrote: > > 5. At the end of the day I find myself casting my lot for landing pages > with the form > > http://bioconductor.org/release/BiocGenerics/ > > which leads to a little less typing but not the dynamic resolution that > started this (version

Re: [Bioc-devel] Rtools warning on tracker page

2015-03-24 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
The builder for submitted packages uses the devtools package and this is a bug in devtools: https://github.com/hadley/devtools/issues/717 You can ignore it. Dan - Original Message - > From: "Glyn Bradley" > To: bioc-devel@r-project.org > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:03:36 AM > Su

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Huber
> 5. At the end of the day I find myself casting my lot for landing pages with > the form > http://bioconductor.org/release/BiocGenerics/ > which leads to a little less typing but not the dynamic resolution that > started this (version) of the thread. But we already have dynamic resolution. Eve

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
#5 is what I was thinking of when I responded. A simple RewriteRule, if anyone still uses Apache. "Release" vs "devel" and/or "3.0" vs "3.1" vs "3.2", e.g. > http://bioconductor.org/release/BiocGenerics/ Pointing analogously to > http://bioconductor.org/3.0/BiocGenerics/ seems like a good

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Martin Morgan
On 03/24/2015 02:31 AM, Wolfgang Huber wrote: Before we start a religious war, can we make progress on the pragmatic goal of making it possible to provide such URLs to people? There are two concepts - ‘the package' - a specific version, running in a specific environment, ‘frozen’, etc. (Gabe)

[Bioc-devel] Rtools warning on tracker page

2015-03-24 Thread Glyn Bradley
Hi After uploading our package to the tracker, it built successfully on all systems with no errors. But we have the following Rtools related WARNING: WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages, but no version of Rtools compatible with R 3.2.0 was found. (Only the following incompatible vers

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Huber
Before we start a religious war, can we make progress on the pragmatic goal of making it possible to provide such URLs to people? There are two concepts - ‘the package' - a specific version, running in a specific environment, ‘frozen’, etc. (Gabe) - ‘the package’ - as a concept and a living arti