Hi,

I am having difficulties installing the package "bvbiome".

code:

source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
library(BiocInstaller)
biocLite("bvbiome")

Error:

Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, repos = repos,  :
  'lib = "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.2.3/library"' is not writable
Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, repos = repos,  : 
  unable to install packages
In addition: Warning message:
package ‘bvbiome’ is not available (for R version 3.2.3) 

Output of sessionInfo():

R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Hebrew_Israel.1255  LC_CTYPE=Hebrew_Israel.1255    LC_MONETARY=Hebrew_Israel.1255 LC_NUMERIC=C                  
[5] LC_TIME=Hebrew_Israel.1255    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] BiocInstaller_1.20.3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.2.3

The error in bold is reproducible in the following R versions:

3.4

3.2.5

3.2.3

R under development

I wasn't able to find a list of the R versions for which bvbiome is available. 

Could you please let me know how I can overcome this issue?

Thanks!

bvbiome was never submitted to Biocondcutor. You can check it out and install it 'by hand' from PowerShell / DOS

svn co --username readonly https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/bvbiome
R CMD INSTALL bvbiome

(the password is also 'readonly'; I think Tortoise SVN is the usual Windows svn client, with a graphical user interface to accomplish the check-out above).

The package has not been maintained, and could well be incompatible with current versions of the GenomicRanges infrastructure.

Where did you see a reference to the package, and what functionality are you looking for? Maybe there is a better solution...