Hi,

Can someone tell me if the newest version of R (3.2.0) and the newest version of BioC (Bioconductor version 3.1 (BiocInstaller 1.18.2)) work for Mac OS X Yosemite? I got an error --Error in as.character(tools:::.BioC_version_associated_with_R_version) : 
  cannot coerce type 'closure' to vector of type 'character' every time I try to update my packages.

Bioconductor works fine on Yosemite. The problem is you have an older version of BiocInstaller, so do this:

Start R as follows: R --vanilla

Then:

remove.packages("BiocInstaller")
source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")

That should clear things up and allow you to update/install packages.

Hi Dan, Thanks for your help. Can you show me further how to start R with vanilla? I have been running R in console which does not provide an alternative way of starting, as least not known to me. Thanks, Wing