From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Tue Oct  4 16:42:14 2005
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: 04 Oct 2005 16:42:14 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Option "installWithVers" seems to impact new.packages()
	badly?
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"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?

...

> > > 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.

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. 


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[Rd] Option "installWithVers" seems to impact new.packages() badly?
Peter Dalgaard