bioconductor for R 2.6.2 version

Question

[gizemtatar]

How I install bioconductor for R 2.6.2 version. I try source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")

This programme give error message

Error in get(".BioC_version_associated_with_R_version", envir = asNamespace("tools"),  :
  variable ".BioC_version_associated_with_R_version" was not found

[Brice Sarver]

Any particular reason you want to use an older version of R?

Answer 1

[Martin Morgan]

R 2.6.2 is from 2008. I suggest that you use a more recent version. For very old versions, I think you can use

source("http://bioconductor.org/getBioC.R")

I think also that using install.packages() directly will likely succeed in these very old versions of R / Bioconductor by manually setting the repository URL used in install.packages() to

repos = c("http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.1/bioc", 
          "http://cran.r-project.org")
install.packages("Biobase", repos=repos)

This page provides a list of Bioconductor versions associated with R versions.