[BioC] source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R")

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Hi, here's just a quick suggestion how to simpify first time
installation. In "Bioconductor FAQ, Version 1.1.0, 2002-11-18" is says:

"Installing Bioconductor packages using the installation script
getBioC.R 

1. To install the relevant Bioconductor packages, open a web browser to
the Bioconductor website and follow the links to either "Released
Packages" or "Developmental Packages" under the "Downloads" section.
Download the installation script getBioC.R. 
2. Start the R program typing "R" at the shell prompt. 
3. Change the working directory to be the directory where you saved the
file getBioC.R, e.g., "setwd("~/Project1")". 
4. Type the command "source("getBioC.R")" at the R prompt to source the
installation script into your R session. Alternately, you could paste
the entire length of the script  into your R window."

All this can be replaced by

1. Load the installation script by 
   source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R")

which should ensure that the latest script is used too. Note that
source(), or rather parse(), does not require url(), e.g.
source(url("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R")).

Happy holiday

Henrik Bengtsson

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