[BioC] alternate /tmp for Bioconductor install

[Robert Citek]

On May 20, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Seth Falcon wrote:
> Well, there isn't a global Bioc version that you get query.  The best
> thing to do is to compare the version numbers of a few packages
> against what is on the Bioconductor website.
>
> For example,
>
>> library(Biobase)
>> sessionInfo()
>>
> R version 2.1.0, 2005-04-29, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "tools"     "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices"  
> "utils"
> [7] "datasets"  "base"
>
> other attached packages:
>  Biobase
> "1.5.12"
>
> And then verify the version here:
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/bioc/stable/src/contrib/html/

I'm not that familiar with R, but I imagine that the above is  
scriptable.  That is, I should be able to traverse the package  
dependency tree and query each package for its version.  Is that  
possible within R?

Regards,
- Robert