On 03/22/2010 02:06 PM, Pierre-Yves wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 14:01 -0700, Martin Morgan wrote: >> On 03/22/2010 01:53 PM, Pierre-Yves wrote: >>> Dear list, >>> >>> At the moment to know the latest version of a package in the release >>> branch I am parsing the html of the page >>> (http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/<name>.html). I was >>> wondering if there would be a easier way available to access this >>> information. >>> >>> Would anyone has an idea about this ? >> >> Hi Pierre -- >> >> source('http://bioconductor.org/biocLite') >> ap = available.packages(contrib.url(biocinstallRepos())) >> ap['Biobase',] >> >> or if the package is installed >> >> packageDescription('Biobase')$Version >> >> See also ?new.packages > Nice indeed but I was more thinking of a solution outside of R itself > (maybe something in the infrastructure of bioconductor). didn't know there was an 'outside' out there. There's http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.6/bioc/src/contrib/PACKAGES and friends (different release number, mac or windows binaries). Martin > > Any clue ? > > Thanks, > Pierre > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor -- Martin Morgan Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 Location: Arnold Building M1 B861 Phone: (206) 667-2793

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Pierre-Yves <pingou at="" pingoured.fr=""> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 14:01 -0700, Martin Morgan wrote: >> On 03/22/2010 01:53 PM, Pierre-Yves wrote: >> > Dear list, >> > >> > At the moment to know the latest version of a package in the release >> > branch I am parsing the html of the page >> > (http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/<name>.html). I was >> > wondering if there would be a easier way available to access this >> > information. >> > >> > Would anyone has an idea about this ? >> >> Hi Pierre -- >> >> source('http://bioconductor.org/biocLite') >> ap = available.packages(contrib.url(biocinstallRepos())) >> ap['Biobase',] >> >> or if the package is installed >> >> packageDescription('Biobase')$Version >> >> See also ?new.packages > Nice indeed but I was more thinking of a solution outside of R itself > (maybe something in the infrastructure of bioconductor). > > Any clue ? Hi, Pierre. You can write a script using R and then call that from somewhere else. Also, if you need a "text file", you can run the little R script that Martin just gave as a cron job to generate the "text file" that you can read using another tool. What are you trying to accomplish in the end? Sean