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Why BiocManager try to reinstall dependencies already installed?

geneplotter is installed but BiocManager::install function will still try to download and install, how to change such behave? Because my connetion is very bad.

> packageVersion("geneplotter")
[1] ‘1.64.0’
> BiocManager::install("GSVA")                                                                
Bioconductor version 3.10 (BiocManager 1.30.10), R 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Installing package(s) 'GSVA'
also installing the dependencies ‘geneplotter’, ‘shinythemes’

trying URL 'https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.10/bioc/src/contrib/geneplotter_1.64.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1431450 bytes (1.4 MB)
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