Re: [Bioc-devel] Dependency on devtools in biocLite()

2017-01-20 Thread Andrzej Oleś
Awesome, many thanks Martin for the update! Cheers, Andrzej On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 8:08 AM, Martin Morgan < martin.mor...@roswellpark.org> wrote: > On 01/17/2017 07:15 AM, Andrzej Oleś wrote: > >> Thanks Martin! >> >> I see your point - then I suggest that at least the call to >>

Re: [Bioc-devel] Dependency on devtools in biocLite()

2017-01-18 Thread Martin Morgan
On 01/17/2017 07:15 AM, Andrzej Oleś wrote: Thanks Martin! I see your point - then I suggest that at least the call to `devtools::install` is guarded by a customized more informative error massage, something along the lines: Package 'devtools' missing: please install it (e.g., by a call to

Re: [Bioc-devel] Dependency on devtools in biocLite()

2017-01-14 Thread Martin Morgan
On 01/13/2017 06:29 PM, Andrzej Oleś wrote: Dear all, it's great that for some time now `biocLite()` also resolves package dependencies for GitHub hosted packages. However, as this functionality depends on devtools, an attempt to install a GitHub package when devtools is not installed results

[Bioc-devel] Dependency on devtools in biocLite()

2017-01-13 Thread Andrzej Oleś
Dear all, it's great that for some time now `biocLite()` also resolves package dependencies for GitHub hosted packages. However, as this functionality depends on devtools, an attempt to install a GitHub package when devtools is not installed results in an error > library(BiocInstaller) >