[BioC] alias in .Rd and bundles

[Robert Gentleman]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:48:53PM -0800, Anthony Rossini wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Sandrine Dudoit wrote:
> 
> 
> > 2. I've installed the bundle Bioconductor. Is there a way to load all
> > packages with one command in R, instead of going library(package1),
> > library(package2), etc.?
> 
> Do we need a dummy library, Bioconductor, with 
> 
> .First.lib <- function() {
>   while (library in bioconductor.libraries)
>     require(library)
> }
> 
> It appears that there are numerous subsets that might be of interest, and might not be worth power-loading everything (but it might be worth some kind of "topic/activity" based loader of the above, i.e. Bioconductor.topic("cDNA"), Bioconductor.topic("affy"), or similar activity-sets.
> 
> Comments?


  These all seem reasonable, don't forget that if a package has a
  requires for something else that something else gets loaded with the
  package. 

  For those of us working off of cvs there is an install target for
  the makefile in madman/Rpacks...



> 
> best,
> -tony
> 
> 
> 
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