Ok, I had to manually remove the BiocInstaller package, restart R and then run biocLite and I am now on BiocInstaller 1.17.5 ~ Bioconductor 3.0
Clearly, there is some issue with the IS_UPGRADEABLE variable which (I guess) is initialized at install time. On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen < kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using R-devel, I get > > R-devel > > R Under development (unstable) (2015-03-09 r67969) -- "Unsuffered > Consequences" > Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. > Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. > > Natural language support but running in an English locale > > R is a collaborative project with many contributors. > Type 'contributors()' for more information and > 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. > > Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or > 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. > Type 'q()' to quit R. > > **************************** > ** Hopkins NEWS and Notes ** > **************************** > > News and updates for the R installation will be sent to bit-help, so > consider subscribing > > An automatic user library has been created (in case it did not already > exist) as > ~/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/3.2 > install.packages and R CMD INSTALL will automatically install to this > directory, so there is no need for a -l or a lib argument to these > functions. > > Loading required package: utils > none > > source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") > Bioconductor version 3.0 (BiocInstaller 1.16.1), ?biocLite for help > > > Why? In the past it would auto-detect my R version and automatically use > Bioc devel. Also, I get > > > useDevel(TRUE) > Error: 'devel' version requires a more recent R > > Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit > > 1: useDevel(TRUE) > 2: .stop("'devel' version requires a more recent R") > > Best, > Kasper > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel