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Hi Jab, This looks like a problem with the "seqinr" package itself or with the server the package is trying to connect to. Please contact the package authors/maintainers directly since "seqinr" is not a Bioconductor package. Thanks, H. Jabez Wilson wrote: > Hi, I've been looking at the new "seqinr" package, for manipulation of sequence data. I can't connect to the databases using the choosebank() function. I get the following error message: > > Error in socketConnection(host = host, port = port, server = FALSE, blocking = TRUE) : > unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > pbil.univ-lyon1.fr:5558 cannot be opened > Error in choosebank() : I wasn't able to open the socket connection: > o Check that your are connected to the internet. > o Check that port 5558 is not closed by a firewall. > o Try to increase timeout value (current is 5 seconds). > > my computer is connected to the internet, and is behind a firewall, but I start R using the "--internet2" option and have no problems installing R/Bioconductor packages via the internet or querying Entrez via e.g. dbNames, so assume I can see the outside world via the firewall. > > Does anyone have any advice? > > Jab > > > > > --------------------------------- > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > -- ------------------------ Hervé Pagès E-mail: hpages at fhcrc.org Phone: (206) 667-5791 Fax: (206) 667-1319