{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1941","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1941/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1941/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1941/events","html_url":"https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/1941","id":125527446,"number":1941,"title":"bioconductor update error","user":{"login":"jfreimer","id":7303848,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7303848?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jfreimer","html_url":"https://github.com/jfreimer","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jfreimer/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jfreimer/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jfreimer/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jfreimer/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jfreimer/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jfreimer/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jfreimer/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jfreimer/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jfreimer/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-01-08T02:19:05Z","updated_at":"2016-01-08T02:19:05Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I tried to update bioconductor in conda R and got the following error:\r\n```\r\nsource(\"http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R\")\r\nbiocLite()\r\nBioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org\r\nUsing Bioconductor 3.2 (BiocInstaller 1.20.1), R 3.2.2 (2015-08-14).\r\nOld packages: 'Matrix', 'mgcv'\r\nUpdate all/some/none? [a/s/n]: a\r\ntrying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/Matrix_1.2-3.tar.gz'\r\nContent type 'application/x-gzip' length 1784878 bytes (1.7 MB)\r\n==================================================\r\ndownloaded 1.7 MB\r\n\r\ntrying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/mgcv_1.8-10.tar.gz'\r\nContent type 'application/x-gzip' length 802060 bytes (783 KB)\r\n==================================================\r\ndownloaded 783 KB\r\n\r\n* installing *source* package ‘Matrix’ ...\r\n** package ‘Matrix’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked\r\nError : Invalid DESCRIPTION file\r\n\r\nInvalid Priority field.\r\nPackages with priorities 'base' or 'recommended' or 'defunct-base' must\r\nalready be known to R.\r\n\r\nSee section 'The DESCRIPTION file' in the 'Writing R Extensions'\r\nmanual.\r\n\r\nERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package ‘Matrix’\r\n* removing ‘/N/home/j/f/jfreimer/Mason/miniconda/lib/R/library/Matrix’\r\n* restoring previous ‘/N/home/j/f/jfreimer/Mason/miniconda/lib/R/library/Matrix’\r\n* installing *source* package ‘mgcv’ ...\r\n** package ‘mgcv’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked\r\nError : Invalid DESCRIPTION file\r\n\r\nInvalid Priority field.\r\nPackages with priorities 'base' or 'recommended' or 'defunct-base' must\r\nalready be known to R.\r\n\r\nSee section 'The DESCRIPTION file' in the 'Writing R Extensions'\r\nmanual.\r\n\r\nERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package ‘mgcv’\r\n* removing ‘/N/home/j/f/jfreimer/Mason/miniconda/lib/R/library/mgcv’\r\n* restoring previous ‘/N/home/j/f/jfreimer/Mason/miniconda/lib/R/library/mgcv’\r\n\r\nThe downloaded source packages are in\r\n\t‘/tmp/RtmpX1DyKo/downloaded_packages’\r\nWarning messages:\r\n1: In install.packages(update[instlib == l, \"Package\"], l, contriburl = contriburl,  :\r\n  installation of package ‘Matrix’ had non-zero exit status\r\n2: In install.packages(update[instlib == l, \"Package\"], l, contriburl = contriburl,  :\r\n  installation of package ‘mgcv’ had non-zero exit status\r\n\r\n```"}}