[BioC] How uninstall the BioC update in my home directory?

Steve Lianoglou slianoglou at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 18:13:02 CEST 2009


Hi,

On Aug 5, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Peng Yu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> update.packages(repos=biocinstallRepos(), ask=FALSE)
>
> I used the above commands to update the packages, which created the
> directory 'R' in my home directory. Later, my system administrator
> installed the updates system wide (the system is linux). I'm wondering
> what the correct procedure is to uninstall my own updates.

I'm not sure that there is such a procedure. Nuking the library  
directories from your ~/R/..../library/* directory (or wherever they  
were installed) should do just fine.

-steve

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