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NEW FEATURES
o biocLite() supports full URLs, e.g., to archived Bioconductor
packages.
o Support MRAN (Microsoft R) archives.
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.24.0
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NEW FEATURES
o biocLite() uses lib.loc= to find devtools, reports more
informatively why devtools fails to load
o biocLite() only offers to update non-masked packages
o biocLite() reports when packages in unwriteable directories are
out-of-date, but does not try (and fail) to update them.
o isDevel() returns TRUE if the version of BiocInstaller
corresponds to the development version of Bioconductor.
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.20.0
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BUG FIXES
o biocLite() uses lib.loc when calling update.packages
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.18.0
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NEW FEATURES
o biocLite() supports github repositories (implicitly, 'packages'
following the 'maintainer/package' convention)
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.14.0
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NEW FEATURES
o biocUpdatePackages updates installed packages and their
dependencies.
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.10.0
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NEW FEATURES
o biocValid() checks that installed packages are consistent with
those available via biocLite().
o biocVersion() returns the version of Bioconductor expected with
this version of the BiocInstaller package.
USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
o biocLite() invoked with no arguments updates currently installed
packages to their most-recent version.
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