[Rd] Dependency 'sma' is not available

[Duncan Murdoch]

Martin Morgan wrote:
> zong-pei.han at imm.ox.ac.uk wrote:
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>> So packages like beadarray and arrayQualityMetrics
>> cannot be installed.
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> The sma author no longer wishes to maintain this package. The packges
> beadarray and arrayQualityMetrics are Bioconductor packages that depend
> on sma indirectly through other packages. The other packages are being
> revised to no longer depend on sma, but this has not yet been completed.
> The workaround is to manually install sma from its archive: download
>
>   http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/Archive/sma/sma_0.5.15.tar.gz
>
> and install.packages("sma_0.5.15.tar.gz", repos=NULL).
>
> beadarray and arrayQualityMetrics are Bioconductor packages, so please
> follow up on the Bioconductor mailing list
>
>   http://bioconductor.org/docs/mailList.html
>
>   

This message is mainly for Zong-pei:

I don't know the circumstances or license for sma, but one of the 
advantages of open source is that someone else could take over 
maintenance of sma if it is open source and the original author is no 
longer interested.  You should think about doing it, or recruiting 
someone with the necessary skills if you don't have them.

Duncan Murdoch

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