Where to download older version of R packages in Bioconductor?

Question

[xieshaojun0621]

I want to use the old version edgeR (v3.12.0). I tried to search using Google. I can't get the link for this version. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Thanks.

[Devon Ryan]

3.12.0 wasn't part of a bioconductor release, so you'd need to much with svn to actually find it and there's no guarantee it exists there. Are you sure you don't want 3.12.1, which was available here?

[LLTommy]

While I don't know where to get it, I have a question: Do you mind telling us why you need an old version, I am curious.

[xieshaojun0621]

The reason is we have two similar projects from the sample lab. The first one was already finished. For the new one, we'd like to keep the tools we used consistent. Now if I used biocLite("edgeR") to install, it will automatically install v1.12.1 under R-3.2.2.

[xieshaojun0621]

Thanks. I will try.

[xieshaojun0621]

I found a possible way to do this.

svn co https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks Rpacks-devel/edgeR --username readonly

The password is also readonly.

svn log Rpacks-devel/edgeR/ > edgeR_svn.log

If you know the reversion number, you can use: svn update -rVERISONNUMBER

to update the code.

References: https://www.bioconductor.org/developers/source-control/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6589512/checkout-a-specific-older-version-of-the-source-code-through-subversion/13619486#13619486 https://www.bioconductor.org/developers/version-numbering/

Answer 1

[venu]

Recently I had to download some older versions as well and I came across the following link which maintains all versions of a Bioconductor package

https://bioarchive.galaxyproject.org/#/pkg/Biobase/

I thought it's worth it to post here, so future googlers will find a straight forward solution.

Answer 2

[Charles Plessy]

Some Bioconductor packages are redistributed by Debian, and with a bit of luck some previous versions might be found in our snapshot archive.