I have been depending on syncLocalLibList in reposTools of BioC 1.8. As reposTools has been dropped from the current BioC release, can I mimic the functionality of syncLocalLibList with some other function? Below is the code I have previously used: require(reposTools) syncLocalLibList() most.recent.pckg.ver<-getPkgVers(as.character(annot.pckg))[[1]] Thanks, Mark Mark W. Kimpel MD ? Official Business Address: ? Department of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine PR M116 Institute of Psychiatric Research 791 Union Drive Indianapolis, IN 46202 ? Preferred Mailing Address: ? 15032 Hunter Court Westfield, IN? 46074 ? (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile ? (317) 663-0513 Home (no voice mail please) 1-(317)-536-2730 FAX

Hi Mark, "Kimpel, Mark William" <mkimpel at="" iupui.edu=""> writes: > I have been depending on syncLocalLibList in reposTools of BioC > 1.8. As reposTools has been dropped from the current BioC release, can > I mimic the functionality of syncLocalLibList with some other > function? > > Below is the code I have previously used: > > require(reposTools) > > syncLocalLibList() > > most.recent.pckg.ver<-getPkgVers(as.character(annot.pckg))[[1]] Perhaps you can explain a bit more what it is you are trying to do. Based on the code, I think the goal is to determine the version for a given (already installed) package. Here are a few ways to do this: packageDescription("hgu95av2")$Version This only works for one package at a time. So you might need: sapply(pkgs, function(x) packageDescription(x)$Version) Another option is to query all installed packages: ap <- available.packages() ap[1:10, "Version"] If none of the above give you what you want, please let me know. Best, + seth