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Install Bioconductor 3.7

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Michael Steinbaugh ▴ 90

@mjsteinbaugh

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I'm interested in creating versioned Docker images of Bioconductor releases back to 3.6 for unit testing against my package code. I'm stuck getting Bioconductor 3.7 to install instead of 3.8 on R 3.5 using a rocker/r-ver base image (e.g. R 3.5.3). What's the correct approach for this? Both BioC 3.7 and 3.8 are pinned against R >= 3.5.0. Otherwise, I'm good to go creating images for BioC 3.6, 3.8, and 3.9.

For reference, BiocManager::install(version = "3.7") doesn't work.

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ADD COMMENT • link updated 5.7 years ago by Martin Morgan 25k • written 5.7 years ago by Michael Steinbaugh ▴ 90

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What does 'doesn't work' mean?

ADD REPLY • link 5.7 years ago Martin Morgan 25k

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I copied the error from my Docker build, see below

ADD REPLY • link 5.7 years ago Michael Steinbaugh ▴ 90

score 2 · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-03

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shepherl 4.1k

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For the older versions of R/Bioconductor we used BiocInstaller - You do realize that we do have docker containers for these past versions already? Core dockers You can just pull the different tags we have for the R/Bioc Versions.

ADD COMMENT • link 5.7 years ago shepherl 4.1k

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Thanks @shepherl, yeah I might just end up using the versioned release_core2 images as the base instead. I was just wondering on a clean R 3.5 installation, what's the right way to install BioC 3.7 specifically -- I can only get it to install 3.8 at the moment.

ADD REPLY • link 5.7 years ago Michael Steinbaugh ▴ 90

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This link could also be helpful http://bioconductor.org/install/#Legacy

ADD REPLY • link 5.7 years ago shepherl 4.1k

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Thanks, Lori and Martin, I figured it out. For reference, on R 3.5, here's how to install Bioconductor 3.7 or 3.8.

Install Bioconductor 3.7:

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

Install Bioconductor 3.8:

install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install()

Martin, where I got confused was trying this approach, which doesn't work on R 3.5:

BiocManager::install(version = "3.7")

This is the error that returns:

> BiocManager::install(version = "3.7")
Error: Bioconductor version not changed
Execution halted

Maybe we should improve the error handling in BiocManager to suggest to users to use BiocInstaller instead in this case, because I forgot.

Best, Mike

ADD REPLY • link 5.7 years ago Michael Steinbaugh ▴ 90

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This is a new R installation, edited for brevity:

> install.packages("BiocManager", repos="https://cran.R-project.org")
Installing package into ‘/private/tmp/lib’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.R-project.org/src/contrib/BiocManager_1.30.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 242304 bytes (236 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 236 KB
...
* DONE (BiocManager)

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/private/var/folders/yn/gmsh_22s2c55v816r6d51fx1tnyl61/T/RtmpvRo8aZ/downloaded_packages’
> BiocManager::install(version="3.7")
Downgrade 1 packages to Bioconductor version '3.7'? [y/n]: y
Bioconductor version 3.7 (BiocManager 1.30.4), R 3.5.3 Patched (2019-03-11
  r76325)
Installing package(s) 'BiocVersion'
trying URL 'https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.7/bioc/src/contrib/BiocVersion_3.7.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 905 bytes
==================================================
downloaded 905 bytes
...
* DONE (BiocVersion)

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/private/var/folders/yn/gmsh_22s2c55v816r6d51fx1tnyl61/T/RtmpvRo8aZ/downloaded_packages’
> BiocManager::version()
[1] ‘3.7’

Even if I start again with

install.packages("BiocManager", repos="https://cran.R-project.org")
BiocManager::install()      # default for R 3.5 is Bioc 3.8

and then 'downgrade' I get

> BiocManager::install(version="3.7")
Downgrade 2 packages to Bioconductor version '3.7'? [y/n]: y
Bioconductor version 3.7 (BiocManager 1.30.4), R 3.5.3 Patched (2019-03-11
  r76325)
Installing package(s) 'BiocVersion'
trying URL 'https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.7/bioc/src/contrib/BiocVersion_3.7.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 905 bytes
==================================================
downloaded 905 bytes
...
The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/private/var/folders/yn/gmsh_22s2c55v816r6d51fx1tnyl61/T/RtmpSbpLHl/downloaded_packages’
> BiocManager::version()
[1] ‘3.7’

So I'm still not sure what the issue is? Is it the rocker image? I don't really think they do anything to accommodate (or confuse!) Bioconductor...

ADD REPLY • link 5.6 years ago Martin Morgan 25k

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It could be an issue specific to rocker/r-ver. Here's a minimal reproducible example.

Dockerfile:

FROM rocker/r-ver:3.5.3

WORKDIR /tmp
ADD install.R .
RUN R -f install.R
WORKDIR /

Corresponding install.R file:

install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install(version = "3.7")

ADD REPLY • link 5.6 years ago Michael Steinbaugh ▴ 90

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Thanks, it wasn't clear to me that you were building this from a Dockerfile (i.e., non-interactively). The correct commands for install.R are

install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install(version = "3.7", ask = FALSE)

I opened an issue at https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocManager/issues/47

ADD REPLY • link 5.6 years ago Martin Morgan 25k