Hi: There is a problem with installing bioconductor. When use BiocManager::install("bioconductor"), it failed and reminded as follows

BiocManager::install("bioconductor") Bioconductor version 3.10 (BiocManager 1.30.10), R 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) Installing package(s) 'bioconductor' Old packages: 'lattice', 'nlme', 'RCurl', 'xml2' Update all/some/none? [a/s/n]: a

There are binary versions available but the source versions are later: binary source needs_compilation RCurl 1.98-1.1 1.98-1.2 TRUE xml2 1.3.1 1.3.2 TRUE

Binaries will be installed 试开URL’https://mirrors.tongji.edu.cn/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/lattice_0.20-41.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 1174332 bytes (1.1 MB) downloaded 1.1 MB

试开URL’https://mirrors.tongji.edu.cn/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/nlme_3.1-147.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 2374568 bytes (2.3 MB) downloaded 2.3 MB

试开URL’https://mirrors.tongji.edu.cn/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/RCurl_1.98-1.1.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 2988412 bytes (2.8 MB) downloaded 2.8 MB

试开URL’https://mirrors.tongji.edu.cn/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/xml2_1.3.1.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 3179066 bytes (3.0 MB) downloaded 3.0 MB

package ‘lattice’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package ‘nlme’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package ‘RCurl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package ‘xml2’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpuKnCyy\downloaded_packages Warning message: package ‘bioconductor’ is not available (for R version 3.6.3)

Many thanks to help me.

Hey,

bioconductor is not, in itself, a package that you can install. Rather, 'Bioconductor' refers to a suite of packages and libraries that pass through a specific software development life-cycle that ultimately promotes testing, reproducibility, maintenance, and, generally, good coding practices. It also refers to the group of people who work to ensure that this development life-cycle continues running and who interact with the community in different ways.

If you want to update your Bioconductor packages that are currently installed, then you just need to do:

BiocManager::install()

To install any specific package, e.g., 'biomaRt', then you can do:

BiocManager::install('biomaRt')

Kevin