Re: [Bioc-devel] building R and bioconductor

2015-04-28 Thread Gabe Becker
Martin, On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Martin Morgan wrote: > > Downloading a specific version of Bioconductor packages retrospectively is > challenging, unless the version is the final version in a release cycle. > This is because the Bioc repository only contains one version of a package >

Re: [Bioc-devel] building R and bioconductor

2015-04-28 Thread Gabe Becker
Hi all, Laurent: Thanks for the shout-out! It's gratifying to see that people have noticed what I'm doing. Berri, As Laurent suggested, my switchr package (currently at http://github.com/gmbecker/switchr , on CRAN soon) is designed to do this. It has a few features which I think are relevant to

Re: [Bioc-devel] building R and bioconductor

2015-04-28 Thread Martin Morgan
On 04/28/2015 10:36 AM, Laurent Gatto wrote: Dear Stefano, On 28 April 2015 16:50, Berri, Stefano wrote: Hi. I need a very reproducible way of creating a R builds with a series of CRAN and Bioconductor packages. I want to be able to download a specific version or R, a specific version of al

Re: [Bioc-devel] building R and bioconductor

2015-04-28 Thread Laurent Gatto
Dear Stefano, On 28 April 2015 16:50, Berri, Stefano wrote: > Hi. > > I need a very reproducible way of creating a R builds with a series of > CRAN and Bioconductor packages. > > I want to be able to download a specific version or R, a specific > version of all packages and then install them in

[Bioc-devel] building R and bioconductor

2015-04-28 Thread Berri, Stefano
Hi. I need a very reproducible way of creating a R builds with a series of CRAN and Bioconductor packages. I want to be able to download a specific version or R, a specific version of all packages and then install them in the right order (to make sure every package has the dependencies at inst