Re: [Bioc-devel] Including large files for the package

2023-09-05 Thread Mike Smith
Hi Ali, Looking at the files, it seems although the file extension is .xls, they're actually just plain text TSV files. They compress pretty well with standard tools and R is able to easily read a tsv compressed with something like GZIP. I wonder if you've considered just compressing the files an

[Bioc-devel] Bioconductor 3.18 Release Schedule

2023-09-05 Thread Kern, Lori via Bioc-devel
The release date for Bioc 3.18 is tentatively schedule for Wednesday October 25th. The 3.18 release will use R-4.3. The following highlights important deadlines for the release. Important deadlines can be found on the website: https://bioconductor.org/developers/release-schedule/ As a Quick Su

[Bioc-devel] Deprecated Packages for Bioc 3.18

2023-09-05 Thread Kern, Lori via Bioc-devel
The Bioconductor Team is continuing to identify packages that will be deprecated in the next release to allow for the Bioconductor community to respond accordingly. Please see the current list at https://support.bioconductor.org/p/9152979/ It should be noted, we did try to reach out to these