[please don't reply to another message and change the subject, better to start a new message for a new topic] Keith Satterley <keith at="" wehi.edu.au=""> writes: > I've been creating a script to install all packages that I want on computers in > our Institute and I've been checking what is installed by biocLite. > > The web page: > > http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/install-howto.html > > is incorrect. The error is that the page states that biocLite actually installs > 20 packages, including reposTools. However, reposTools is not installed, but > affyQCreport is installed. > > Could the install-howto be corrected? yes, we will fix it. Thanks for pointing out that it is out of date. > I guess to be technically correct, it could be pointed out on the web page that > installing the packages using biocLite also causes dependent packages, > widgetTools, affyio, GO, KEGG, tkWidgets, simpleaffy and RcolorBrewer to be > installed as well. At least, this happens on my Windows XP > installation of R2.5.0. These dependencies can change. Perhaps we will find a programatic way to have biocLite or similar list what it will try to install and remove the description from the web page... + seth -- Seth Falcon | Computational Biology | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://bioconductor.org