Hello,

Is the biomaRt server down? I can't make BiomaRt library working. I am interested in several features and genes of GRCh38

> library("biomaRt")
Warning messages:
1: package ‘ggplot2’ was built under R version 3.5.2 
2: package ‘tibble’ was built under R version 3.5.2 
3: package ‘tidyr’ was built under R version 3.5.2 
4: package ‘purrr’ was built under R version 3.5.2 
5: package ‘dplyr’ was built under R version 3.5.2 
6: package ‘stringr’ was built under R version 3.5.2 
7: package ‘forcats’ was built under R version 3.5.2 
> listMarts()
Error in listMarts() : Unexpected format to the list of available marts.
Please check the following URL manually, and try ?listMarts for advice.
http://www.ensembl.org:80/biomart/martservice?type=registry&requestid=biomaRt
> mart <- useMart("ensembl","hsapiens_gene_ensembl", host = "useast.ensembl.org")
Error in listMarts(host = host, path = path, port = port, includeHosts = TRUE,  : 
  Unexpected format to the list of available marts.
Please check the following URL manually, and try ?listMarts for advice.
http://useast.ensembl.org:80/biomart/martservice?type=registry&requestid=biomaRt
> listMarts(host="www.ensembl.org")
Error in listMarts(host = "www.ensembl.org") : 
  Unexpected format to the list of available marts.
Please check the following URL manually, and try ?listMarts for advice.
http://www.ensembl.org:80/biomart/martservice?type=registry&requestid=biomaRt
> listEnsembl()
Error in listMarts(mart = mart, host = host, verbose = verbose) : 
  Unexpected format to the list of available marts.
Please check the following URL manually, and try ?listMarts for advice.
http://www.ensembl.org:80/biomart/martservice?type=registry&requestid=biomaRt

Any advice would be much appreciated, Thanks

> library(biomaRt)
> listEnsembl()
             biomart               version
1            ensembl      Ensembl Genes 97
2 ENSEMBL_MART_MOUSE      Mouse strains 97
3                snp  Ensembl Variation 97
4         regulation Ensembl Regulation 97
> mart <- useEnsembl("ensembl", "hsapiens_gene_ensembl")
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18362)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] biomaRt_2.40.4

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.2           AnnotationDbi_1.46.1 magrittr_1.5        
 [4] hms_0.5.1            progress_1.2.2       BiocGenerics_0.30.0 
 [7] IRanges_2.18.2       bit_1.1-14           R6_2.4.0            
[10] rlang_0.4.0          httr_1.4.1           stringr_1.4.0       
[13] blob_1.2.0           tools_3.6.1          parallel_3.6.1      
[16] Biobase_2.44.0       DBI_1.0.0            assertthat_0.2.1    
[19] bit64_0.9-7          digest_0.6.20        tibble_2.1.3        
[22] crayon_1.3.4         vctrs_0.2.0          S4Vectors_0.22.0    
[25] bitops_1.0-6         curl_4.0             RCurl_1.95-4.12     
[28] zeallot_0.1.0        memoise_1.1.0        RSQLite_2.1.2       
[31] stringi_1.4.3        compiler_3.6.1       pillar_1.4.2        
[34] prettyunits_1.0.2    backports_1.1.4      stats4_3.6.1        
[37] XML_3.98-1.20        pkgconfig_2.0.2