Hi! I am behind a firewall, and while installing bioconductor using the getBioC.R script (under Windows), I got this error: Error in getBioC(libName = "all") : Your R is not currently configured to allow HTTP connections, which is required for getBioC to work properly. I understand that I can do it through the 'install packages from local zip files" option, but I am still curious if there is any way I can configure R with proxy settings so that I can use the getBioC.R script? Thanks! Yong Yong Yue Eli Lilly and Company ygyue@lilly.com [[alternate HTML version deleted]]

> Hi! I am behind a firewall, and while installing bioconductor using > the getBioC.R script (under Windows), I got this error: Error in > getBioC(libName = "all") : Your R is not currently configured to allow > HTTP connections, which is required for getBioC to work properly. First, please read this old message to the R-help mailing list: http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/03a/0690.html This describes how to work around the firewall issue in a general case with R. Secondly, once that works, getBioC() now supports a 'method' argument, which like the install/download functions in R defaults to 'auto'. You'll want to use 'method=wget' here. -J