[BioC] biocLite, ask=FALSE bug

Kasper Daniel Hansen kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 20:41:51 CET 2011


I just used biocLite in R-2.13 (.2 patched) with ask=FALSE and got an error:

Using R version 2.13.2, biocinstall version 2.8.4.
Installing Bioconductor version 2.8 packages:
[1] "fdrtool"
Please wait...

Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
  unused argument(s) (ask = FALSE)
Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available,  :
  download of package 'fdrtool' failed

Seems like the ... argument is passed to download.file.  Not sure if
this is a "bug" but biocLite used to accept ask=FALSE.  Btw, it works
in 2.14, so it might not be worth fixing.

Kasper



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