Recommended way of installing dsModellingClient etc in v5

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Hi!

I am just in the process of setting up a new server as a DataSHIELD client with version 5 and have successfully installed the dsBaseClient via

install.packages("dsBaseClient", repos="http://cran.obiba.org", type="source")

When I try the same with the other packages, e. g. dsModellingClient, I get the message:

package ‘dsModellingClient’ is not available (for R version 3.5.2)

Then I checked the OBiBa CRAN and it is indeed not there: https://github.com/obiba/cran/tree/gh-pages/src/contrib

Is it now only possible to install the other DataSHIELD packages via devtools?

Here it says that both ways should work: https://data2knowledge.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DSDEV/pages/659652609/Version+5.0.0

EDIT: Now I checked the R help of dsBaseClient. It seems like the other packages are now integrated in dsBaseClient?

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Hi,

All the ds*Client packages (dsModellingClient, dsGraphicsClient etc.) have been merged into dsBaseClient (since version 5). Same thing for the server side packages. To avoid conflicts, these legacy packages have been removed from cran.obiba.org.

Yannick

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Thank you for clarifying!

Just a suggestion: maybe this could also be stated explicitly in the description of Version 5.0 https://data2knowledge.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DSDEV/pages/659652609/Version+5.0.0? Maybe I am not the only one that is confused when upgrading from 4 to 5.