[BioC] Rsamtools from biocLite using R-devel

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

Thanks, I just wanted to make sure that this was being looked at.  I
can wait a few days.

Kasper

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at fhcrc.org> wrote:
> On 10/26/2010 12:47 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>> When I try to use biocLite to upgrade my Rsamtools under R-devel,
>> biocLite reports that it tries to use the 2.8 repository (correct),
>> but it tries to download Rsamtools 1.1.17 whereas the version of
>> Rsamtools installed using R-2.12 is version 1.2.0 (later than 1.1.17)
>> and the version accessible from subversion is version 1.3.2.
>>
>> I suspect this has something to do with the recent problem with
>> R-devel and biocLite and also by the fact that Rsamtools currently
>> does not seem to build under any platform.
>>
>> Besides the obvious problem, I am running into problems with my
>> existing Rsamtools because normalizePath has been moved from utils to
>> base (which is commented on in NAMESPACE).  Coincidently, it seems
>> that the issue that makes Rsamtools 1.3.2 fail to build is also
>> related to the use of normalizePath that may have its arguments
>> changed,
>
> yes you and I are ahead of the build system -- Rsamtools wants
> normalizePath to be in base, but R-devel on the build system was not (it
> has been updated very recently) current enough for that. So you were
> getting the last Rsamtools that the 'devel' portion of the build system
> correctly built, v. 1.1.17.
>
> This is being straightened out, and should be back to normal over the
> next day or so. The short-term solution is to install Rsamtools from
> source, from an svn checkout
>
>  http://bioconductor.org/developers/source-control/
>
> Martin
>
>>
>> Kasper
>>
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