Patrick, You were right about the firewall issue. I'm now all set. Thanks. I'm propagating this email in case someone else might have encountered the same problem and could benefit from your pointer. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Aboyoun [mailto:paboyoun@fhcrc.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:02 PM To: Bob Xiong Cc: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [BioC] Rcurl 0.8-1 update for bioconductor 2.7 Bob, I am not sure what caused the download issue you experienced. Sometimes there are some "hidden" firewall issues that may have prevented you from downloading the Windows binary package. I just checked on my computer and was able to grab RCurl from the bioconductor website. > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") > biocLite("RCurl") Running biocinstall version 2.2.9 with R version 2.7.0 Your version of R requires version 2.2 of BioConductor. Warning in install.packages(pkgs = pkgs, repos = repos, dependencies = dependencies, : argument 'lib' is missing: using 'C:\Users\patrick\Documents/R/win-library/2.7' trying URL 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/extra/bin/windows/contrib/2.7/RC ur l_0.9-3.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 1329482 bytes (1.3 Mb) opened URL downloaded 1.3 Mb package 'RCurl' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded packages are in C:\Users\patrick\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmplphLQ6\downloaded_packages updating HTML package descriptions > library(RCurl) > sessionInfo() R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] RCurl_0.9-3 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.7.0 If you are still having problems, could you send me more information (offline if necessary) and maybe we can pin down what the issue is? Patrick Bob Xiong wrote: > I tried biocLite("RCurl") but got the following error msg. > > > > >> biocLite("RCurl") >> > > Running biocinstall version 2.2.9 with R version 2.7.0 > > Your version of R requires version 2.2 of BioConductor. > > trying URL > 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/extra/bin/windows/contrib/2.7/RC ur > l_0.9-3.zip' > > Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : > > cannot open URL > 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/extra/bin/windows/contrib/2.7/RC ur > l_0.9-3.zip' > > In addition: Warning message: > > In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : > > cannot open: HTTP status was '0 (nil)' > > Warning in download.packages(p0, destdir = tmpd, available = available, > : > > download of package 'RCurl' failed > > > > Patrick, could you take a look? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bob Xiong, Ph.D. > > Tandem Labs > > www.tandemlabs.com <http: www.tandemlabs.com=""> > > > > > > > [[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 >