If you want access to the devel version of Bioconductor, you should be using the devel version of R and use biocLite. Technically, installing from a devel tarball to a release version of R is sometimes feasible, sometimes not and almost always a recipe for later problems (as many people on the email list have found out). Kasper On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Natasha Sahgal <nsahgal at="" well.ox.ac.uk=""> wrote: > Dear Andreia, > > I think that is probably because it wants the Development version of R as > well (2.14, I assume), as the estimateDispersion function was also in the > development version of the DESeq package. > I might be wrong, but I think that the reason. > > > Regards, > Natasha > > On 06/07/2011 12:21, Andreia Fonseca wrote: >> >> Dear Simon, >> >> Through biocLite, Bioconductor is installing version 1.4.1, which doesn't >> have function estimateDispersions. My R version is 2.13.0. I am trying to >> install version 1.5.17 using the tar.gz file I brought from the course but >> I >> am getting a message that is not available for R 2.13.0. Am I doing >> something wrong? >> Thanks for help. >> Kind regards, >> Andreia > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >