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MetagenomeSeq won't install, error says it is not available for Bioconductor version


I am trying to update R and all packages after not working with it for a few years. I am on a MAC running Sonoma 14.6.1. I need to install MetagenomeSeq for some analysis work and am running into a problem installing it.

I have updated R to version 4.4.1 and R studio to Version 2024.09.0+375

I have installed BioConductor version 3.20 using the command install.packages("BiocManager")

I have verified that BiocManager is turned on in the packages tab of R Studio

I can install other packages using the command BiocManager::install("name_of_package",force=TRUE)

But when I try the command BiocManager::install("metagenomeSeq",force=TRUE)

I get the following error

Warning message: package ‘metagenomeSeq’ is not available for Bioconductor version '3.20'

A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere, see the ideas at https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages

I tried installing it directly in R instead of R studio and I get the same error.

The MetagenomeSeq page at https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/metagenomeSeq.html

Indicates that it should run with Bioconductor 3.20

I also tried the code listed on the bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/metagenomeSeq.html page

Any suggestions appreciated


Solution

  • It looks like that package is erroring out while testing on the Bioconductor build servers. As another commenter suggested, you can try installing the package directly from github, though I would contact the maintainers and see if they're still active. Alternatively, you can download a prior version of R and the correlated Bioconductor version and that should still work.