Hervé Pagès

@LiNk-NY It looks like under some circumstances, like here, `.version_map_config_element()` can actually return a `character(0)`. Which then leads to the "argument is of length zero" error above. This happens if...

@zhoujiaqi704 That comment was directed to Marcel @LiNk-NY, the maintainer of the **BiocManager** package. It was not meant to solve your problem.

Running into this again (using R 4.0): ``` library(BiocManager) BiocManager::version() # [1] ‘3.11’ BiocManager::repositories() # Error: unknown Bioconductor version '3.11'; see https://bioconductor.org/install ``` If BiocVersion says this is BioC 3.11...

It would be nice to get this out of the way before the next Bioconductor release. I hope it's a reasonable request. Thanks!

Let's see if we are on the same page: 1. The change I'm proposing would only affect a user that manages to install the new BiocVersion between the time we...

> If the build system has special requirements, shouldn't the build system implement the solution? The proposed change would benefit not only the build system but _anybody_ who installs the...

Also it's important to understand that all the package failures we see during the last run of the devel builds that precedes a release are because these packages contain code...

Note that `BiocManager::install(pkgs) %in% rownames(installed.packages())` can return false positives e.g. if a newer version of an installed package failed to install or if `force=TRUE` was used but for some reason...

Thanks @keyes-timothy for this submission. Given the amount of vignettes (11 in total), it's gonna be a challenge for a newcomer like me to navigate them:  There's a "Getting...

Sorry for the delay. Package looks good and is on its way to Bioconductor 3.19. Thanks for this contribution. Best, H.