Dear all, I am aiming to install 2 recent BioC packages, ie. GeneVisR and maftools on my Linux ubuntu machine, that runs : Bioconductor 3.2 (BiocInstaller 1.20.3), R 3.3.2 (2016-10-31).

The message I am getting is : 

"package ‘maftools’ is not available (for R version 3.3.2"

or 

"package ‘GeneVisR’ is not available (for R version 3.3.2)" 

Please, could you advise on how to install these packages ? if I need BioC 3.4, how shall I update from BioC 3.2. to 3.4 ?

The error message I am getting is :

>  biocLite("BiocUpgrade")
Error: Bioconductor version 3.2 cannot be upgraded with R version 3.3.2

You have a complete mismatch between your Bioconductor and R versions. BioC 3.2 was intended for R-3.2.x

You should restart R, then do

source("https://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite()

Which should get you the correct version of BiocInstaller, which will then install the correct version of packages.

Also, do note that it's GenVisR, not GeneVisR.

Thank you James, will fix it ;) have a good weekend !