Re: [R] select repositories under linux

2008-01-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, James W. MacDonald wrote: > This is questionable advice for many CRAN packages, and horrible advice > for a Bioconductor package. If there are any dependencies (and BioC > packages often have many, and their dependencies may have > dependencies...) you can end up in download h

Re: [R] select repositories under linux

2008-01-22 Thread Gabor Csardi
Agreed, i had no idea that this is a Bioconductor package. G. On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:49:50AM -0500, James W. MacDonald wrote: > This is questionable advice for many CRAN packages, and horrible advice > for a Bioconductor package. If there are any dependencies (and BioC > packages often hav

Re: [R] select repositories under linux

2008-01-22 Thread James W. MacDonald
This is questionable advice for many CRAN packages, and horrible advice for a Bioconductor package. If there are any dependencies (and BioC packages often have many, and their dependencies may have dependencies...) you can end up in download hell, all because you have ignored the functionality

Re: [R] select repositories under linux

2008-01-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Eleni Christodoulou wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to install the package "GEOquery" in unix. I have downloaded the > standard version of R and this package is not contained in the default. I > know that I can select repositories under windows but I don't know how to do > it

Re: [R] select repositories under linux

2008-01-22 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
See setRepositories() On 22/01/2008, Eleni Christodoulou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to install the package "GEOquery" in unix. I have downloaded the > standard version of R and this package is not contained in the default. I > know that I can select repositories under win

Re: [R] select repositories under linux

2008-01-22 Thread Gavin Simpson
hits=-2.6 tests=BAYES_00 X-USF-Spam-Flag: NO On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 11:26 +0200, Eleni Christodoulou wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to install the package "GEOquery" in unix. I have downloaded the > standard version of R and this package is not contained in the default. I > know that I can selec

Re: [R] select repositories under linux

2008-01-22 Thread Gabor Csardi
Eleni, download the package (I assume you know where it is), on Linux you will need the source package. Then from R type install.packages("", repos=NULL) Gabor On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:26:12AM +0200, Eleni Christodoulou wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to install the package "GEOquery" in un

[R] select repositories under linux

2008-01-22 Thread Eleni Christodoulou
Hi all, I am trying to install the package "GEOquery" in unix. I have downloaded the standard version of R and this package is not contained in the default. I know that I can select repositories under windows but I don't know how to do it in unix. Does anyone have any idea on this? Thank you in a