From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Oct  4 21:24:26 2005
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 20:24:26 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] Option "installWithVers" seems to impact new.packages()
 badly?
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Please don't mangle replies like this to make them unreadable.

Peter's comment is spot-on.  The request for versioned installs and the 
original code came from the BioC team via Robert Gentleman.  I presume it 
was a deliberate choice that a versioned install of 'ash' is reported as 
an installation of 'ash_1.0-9', not 'ash', and I was referring you to the 
authors (and RG was one and will know who else was involved, as I recall 
at least Jeff Gentry) as to their intentions.


On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, A.J. Rossini wrote:

> On 04 Oct 2005 16:42:14 +0200, Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
>>>>>> The issue is that installed.packages() has never been taught about> > > > versioned installs, and you might like to take that up with your BioC> > > > colleagues who added the idea.> >> "A.J. Rossini" <blindglobe at gmail.com> writes:> > Also, I don't know what this has to do with BioC.  This is core R, so> > pertinent to this list.  Otherwise, perhaps it should be taken out?>> Brian can of course speak for himself, but I think his point was just> that the request for the feature came from BioC, not that the> discussion was on the wrong list.
> But what the heck did that have to do with anything?   Should I bemaking comments to  Brian about Peter Donnelly or Jotun Hein if I'vegot comments about their work just because he's at Oxford?
> Irrelevant network connections are irrelevant, and the comment aboutBioC made no sense whatsoever to me.
> best,-tony
> blindglobe at gmail.comMuttenz, Switzerland."Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easilyroll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
>
>

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[Rd] Option "installWithVers" seems to impact new.packages() badly?
Prof Brian Ripley