Hi Robert, I tried to download these packages at home today morning and I also received corrupted files. I am not sure about being a problem here with out local internet because I was able to download and install most of the packages of bioconductor. Regards and thanks a lot for your attention! Fabio Robert Gentleman escreveu: > Dear Fabio, > Almost surely there is some local problem (to you). You will need to > speak with someone there to find out what that problem might be. Not > being able to open a URL from inside of R, suggests that you examine > the relevant documentation on setting up other means of downloading > (perhaps your site requires the use of a proxy server?), such as wget, > etc. which you would need to configure. > > best wishes > Robert > > Fabio Passetti wrote: >> Dear bioconductor developers and mainteiners, >> >> I have been trying to download since last week some packages either >> from the web site or inside R. First, I tried to install inside R, as >> follows: >> >> > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") >> > biocLite("annaffy") >> Running biocinstall version 2.1.8 with R version 2.6.0 >> Your version of R requires version 2.1 of Bioconductor. >> Warning in install.packages(pkgs = pkgs, repos = repos, dependencies = >> dependencies, : >> argument 'lib' is missing: using >> '/storage/carma/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.6' >> also installing the dependency AnnotationDbi >> >> trying URL >> 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.1/bioc/src/contrib/AnnotationDb i_1.0.6.tar.gz' >> >> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") : >> cannot open URL >> >> 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.1/bioc/src/contrib/AnnotationDb i_1.0.6.tar.gz' >> >> In addition: Warning message: >> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") : >> cannot open: HTTP status was '403 Forbidden' >> Warning in download.packages(p0, destdir = tmpd, available = >> available, : >> download of package 'AnnotationDbi' failed >> trying URL >> 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.1/bioc/src/contrib/annaffy_1.10 .0.tar.gz' >> >> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") : >> cannot open URL >> >> 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.1/bioc/src/contrib/annaffy_1.10 .0.tar.gz' >> >> In addition: Warning message: >> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") : >> cannot open: HTTP status was '403 Forbidden' >> Warning in download.packages(p0, destdir = tmpd, available = >> available, : >> download of package 'annaffy' failed >> >> Then I have tried to download manually these packages from the >> bioconductor web site, but they came corrupted. >> >> Any help is appreciated. >> >> Regards, >> >> Fabio >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >