On May 24, 2006, at 4:40 PM, Herve Pages wrote: > Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: >>> I don't. There may be others as well... I'd rather BioC >>> packages be kept separate from CRAN packages in the >>> listing... >> >> I second that. While I am indifferent to what goes on under the hood, >> the Gui (as it stands right now) should only list Bioconductor >> packages when selecting either "Bioconductor (sources)" or >> "Bioconductor (binaries)". > > OK so ideally the GUI should use 2 sets of repos: > > - one for _displaying_ the list of Bioconductor packages: > > http://bioconductor.org/packages/bioc > http://bioconductor.org/packages/data/annotation > http://bioconductor.org/packages/data/experiment > http://bioconductor.org/packages/omegahat > http://bioconductor.org/packages/lindsey > > NB: Note that having omegahat and lindsey will help to prevent > questions like "Hey my package xxx says it depends on SSOAP but > I don't see SSOAP in the list and it's not in CRAN neither!". > Having omegahat and lindsey adds less than 10 packages anyway... > > - one for _installing_ the selected packages: > > same as above + http://cran.fhcrc.org > > And the installation should be done with 'dep=TRUE'. >
As of dep=TRUE - that is what the "install dependencies" checkbox is about. And yes, the above was my proposal and the responses seem to confirm it. I have now modified the PI such that the list will be based on "BioC.repos" and installation will add "repos" (revision 3178). Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
