Martin Morgan

can you clarify the problem and indicate the code you are using?

I think this is likely an integer overflow on Windows; I wonder if this occurs under the 64-bit build, especially under R-devel? This seems to be a regression introduced when...

The use of `ipcmutex()` is correct. The challenge with the in-memory representations is that the memory is being modified in the memory space of each thread / process; that memory...

This looks really interesting; is there more complete information that can be extracted, e.g., from the [VIEWS][1] page? This puts whatever info is in the DESCRIPTION file (e.g., some packages...

since this has been there, unchanged, since March 15 2010 without comment maybe the most expeditious solution is to simple remove it?

The site is more than the repository of packages, so sitemap.xml doesn't sound appropriate for this purpose. For what it's worth package metadata is already available in machine-readable format as...

I can't think of a good reason why the config.yaml file couldn't be extended in this way. Probably there is infrastructure that is supported at 1.6 and beyond (biocLite?) but...

My not quite current clones of Bioconductor software packages shows ``` ~/b/git$ find . -maxdepth 2 -name DESCRIPTION|xargs grep "^URL:" |wc -l 845 ~/b/git$ find . -maxdepth 2 -name DESCRIPTION|xargs...

A work-around might be to promote warnings to error, and then return an error status code, like ``` R -e 'options(warn = 2, error = quote(quit(status=10))); BiocManager::install("foo")' ``` (`?quit` suggests...

Nitesh has tried to build and check all Bioconductor packages; with high success; a challenge is that some packages fail anyway (because they are broken in their current state) and...