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> I would like to install bioconductor base but the install script gives me > an error message as can be seen from the following segment of my R > session. > source("C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/My > Documents/BIOCONDUCTOR/Biobase/scripts/getBioC.R") > > getBioC(libName="all") As a side note, it is probably better to just call: source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") getBioC(libName="all") That way you always have the latest version. > unable to resolve 'www.bioconductor.org'. > Error in getPkgDisc(isDevel) : The url for BioC PACKAGES is incorrect The "unable to resolve ..." line would seem to be a good bet as for the source of your problem. If it can't resolve the name via the internet, it is a sign that your R->internet setup is broken in some way. > The URL in the script is the following, which does not appear to exist at > www.bioconductor.org > URL <- > http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/distrib/PACKAGES That's actually not the URL at all, I'm not sure where you got that as "distrib" doesn't even appear in getBioC.R anywhere - there's no possible way that URL could be formed :) ... the URL it is trying to access (the way you called getBioC()) - http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/release1.1/package/PACKAGES If you can access this via your web browser, the next thing to try would be: readLines("http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/release1.1/package/P ACKAGES") If that fails then it is indeed a problem of your R setup. -J