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mark garey <garey at="" biostat.ucsf.edu=""> writes: > greetings all. > > i have checked the GMANE archive where i found a related > solution at http://www.isrec.isb-sib.ch/~sengstag/bioc_mirror.html. > an excellent resource, but here is my problem. > > i need to set up and maintain a local Bioconductor repository on a > system where no outbound http protocols are allowed and maintenance > for such a repository is restricted to an interactive node within a > research > cluster ( so no fetching of remote files ). > > my question is can getBioc.R ( the other scripts ) be modified to > point to a local path where > a Bioc package repository has been installed? that is, can it deal > with a file:/ type URL? I believe so. The biocLite/getBioc scripts are wrappers around R's install.packages function. I have used install.packages on a local repository using file:// style URLs. + seth -- Seth Falcon | Computational Biology | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center BioC: http://bioconductor.org/ Blog: http://userprimary.net/user/