Hello
I was trying to install a new Bioconductor package,using "biocLite" on my Mac but failed.
biocLite("Rcade") 'BiocInstaller' package not in repository http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc, using 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc' Error: 'BiocInstaller' package not in repository http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc
I think I managed to narrow it down to having to upgrade Bioconductor, because I haven't used it in a while. However, when I tried to use biocLite("BiocUpgrade"), I get the following error (which is basically the same).
'BiocInstaller' package not in repository http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc, using 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc' Error: 'BiocInstaller' package not in repository http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc.
Having looked it up, I now that someone else had exactly the same problem, but in theory the solution was upgrading to the newest R version, but I'm already running R 3.1.1. I do realise that I need to change the contributing url. However I do manage to do that? the argument is embedded deep into the biocInstaller and I do not seem to be able to do it. It feels like a circular problem than in order to fix the problem, I need to fix it.
thank you for your help!
Ana
Here is my sessionInfo() R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit) locale: [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] BiocInstaller_1.10.4 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_3.1.1