Dear List, I have downloaded the latest version of R onto my machine. I have followed the instructions on the Bioconductor web page about downloading the getBioC function and subsequently the packages that I require, however I have run into a problem and I was hoping that someone could shed some light on it. When I opened R and typed: source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") I recieved the following error message: Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: unable to resolve 'www.bioconductor.org'. Does anyone know what is happening here and more importantly, how I can resolve the issue. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks to all Steve. Dr. Stephen Moore Senior Scientist Arragen Ltd. Almac House Charlestown Road Craigavon BT63 5UA E-mail: Stephen.Moore@Arragen.com Phone: +44 2838395751 Mobile: +44 7719989348

Stephen On windows, you need to start RGui.exe with the --internet2 option. On linux, in bash try: % unset no_proxy; R Mick -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Moore [mailto:Stephen.Moore@arragen.com] Sent: 24 October 2003 14:37 To: bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [BioC] PROBLEMS WITH getBioC function Dear List, I have downloaded the latest version of R onto my machine. I have followed the instructions on the Bioconductor web page about downloading the getBioC function and subsequently the packages that I require, however I have run into a problem and I was hoping that someone could shed some light on it. When I opened R and typed: source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") I recieved the following error message: Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: unable to resolve 'www.bioconductor.org'. Does anyone know what is happening here and more importantly, how I can resolve the issue. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks to all Steve. Dr. Stephen Moore Senior Scientist Arragen Ltd. Almac House Charlestown Road Craigavon BT63 5UA E-mail: Stephen.Moore@Arragen.com Phone: +44 2838395751 Mobile: +44 7719989348 _______________________________________________ Bioconductor mailing list Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor

On Friday 24 October 2003 15:37, Stephen Moore wrote: > When I opened R and typed: > > source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") > > I recieved the following error message: > > Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > unable to resolve 'www.bioconductor.org'. You are unable to get a http connection from within R. This is probably due to a firewall, either local (as Zonealarm) or departmental. In case you do not know how to correct this, contact your local sysadmin. Basically, this is a R issue and not a Bioconductor issue. -- Kasper Daniel Hansen, Research Assistent Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen