Any advice regarding the following installation error? biocLite() does not prompt for any additional updates.
> biocLite("TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene")
BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org
Using Bioconductor version 3.1 (BiocInstaller 1.17.3), R version 3.2.0.
Installing package(s) ‘TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene’
trying URL 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.1/data/annotation/src/contrib/TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene_3.0.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 18661634 bytes (17.8 MB)
opened URL
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* installing *source* package ‘TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene’ ...
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene', details:
call: dbGetQuery(conn, SQL)
error: error in evaluating the argument 'conn' in selecting a method for function 'dbGetQuery': Error in get(name, envir = asNamespace(pkg), inherits = FALSE) :
object 'dbConn' not found
Calls: ::: -> get
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing ‘/home/lg390/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/3.2/TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene’
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/Rtmpg6vrx3/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages(pkgs = doing, lib = lib, ...) :
installation of package ‘TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene’ had non-zero exit status
For the session info below, I have also loaded AnnotationDbi, GenomicFeatures, DBI and RSQLite, as I thought these might be relevant.
> sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2014-11-01 r66923) Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats4 parallel stats graphics grDevices utils datasets [8] methods base other attached packages: [1] GenomicFeatures_1.19.10 AnnotationDbi_1.29.14 Biobase_2.27.1 [4] GenomicRanges_1.19.33 GenomeInfoDb_1.3.12 IRanges_2.1.35 [7] S4Vectors_0.5.16 BiocGenerics_0.13.4 RSQLite_1.0.0 [10] DBI_0.3.1 BiocInstaller_1.17.3 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] base64enc_0.1-2 BatchJobs_1.5 BBmisc_1.8 [4] BiocParallel_1.1.11 biomaRt_2.23.5 Biostrings_2.35.7 [7] bitops_1.0-6 brew_1.0-6 checkmate_1.5.1 [10] codetools_0.2-10 compiler_3.2.0 digest_0.6.8 [13] fail_1.2 foreach_1.4.2 GenomicAlignments_1.3.25 [16] iterators_1.0.7 RCurl_1.95-4.5 Rsamtools_1.19.26 [19] rtracklayer_1.27.7 sendmailR_1.2-1 stringr_0.6.2 [22] tools_3.2.0 XML_3.98-1.1 XVector_0.7.3 [25] zlibbioc_1.13.0

Just in case it sheds some additional light or additional darkness to this, I got today the same problem with TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38.knownGene when trying to install it in R-devel. However, it installs fine from release. Here is my error and sessionInfo() in devel: