Tiphaine, Please try source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R"<https: bioconductor.org="" bioclite.r%22="">) without s after http. Best, Julie From: "Tiphaine Martin [bioc]" <noreply@bioconductor.org<mailto:noreply@bioconductor.org>> Reply-To: "reply+d4ed708d+code@bioconductor.org<mailto:reply+d4ed708d+code@bioconductor.org>" <reply+d4ed708d+code@bioconductor.org<mailto:reply+d4ed708d+code@bioconductor.org>> Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 2:25 PM To: Lihua Julie Zhu <julie.zhu@umassmed.edu<mailto:julie.zhu@umassmed.edu>> Subject: [bioc] install new package from bioconductor Activity on a post you are following on support.bioconductor.org<https: support.bioconductor.org=""> User Tiphaine Martin<https: support.bioconductor.org="" u="" 6416=""/> wrote Question: install new package from bioconductor<https: support.bioconductor.org="" p="" 73886=""/>: Hi, I tried to install new packages and I have this error message source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") Error in file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) : https:// URLs are not supported I did some update of package on my version of ubuntu. I didn't think that one of them can influence this command line. I tried to resinstall libcurl, I still have this error. What I need to do ? Regards, Tiphaine > sessionInfo() R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) Running under: Ubuntu precise (12.04.5 LTS) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] RCurl_1.95-4.7 bitops_1.0-6 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_3.2.2 ________________________________ Post tags: software error, bioconductor You may reply via email or visit install new package from bioconductor