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Within the R console, enter following to initiate Bioconductor:
R will ask you if you wish to install these in your personal library in ~/R. Type "y" to both questions.
Would you like to use a personal library instead? (y/n) y
Would you like to create a personal library
~/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/3.3
to install packages into? (y/n) y
When completed, R will prompt you if you wish to update other packages. Choose "n" to skip this step to save time.
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* installing *source* package ‘limma’ ...
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** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (limma)
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* installing *source* package ‘edgeR’ ...
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** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (edgeR)
Use sessionInfo() to print version information about R and attached or loaded packages. This information is useful when providing bug report to package developers.
R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] BiocInstaller_1.24.0
Enter q() to exit the R console. Enter "n" to not save the workspace as an image.
To install or update Bioconductor packages and , and CRAN package enters biocLite(c("cluster","Biobase","qvalue"))
You can usually use biocLite() to install Bioconductor packages. But, if R version you are using is out-dated, the packages that can be installed using biocLite() will also be of older versions. Therefore, in this case, you may choose to install the packages from source. Below I showed how you can install and from package sources from .