Hello, Here is the error I got when trying to install bioconductor on Windows XP. Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. > source("H:\\Data\\Rcode\\getBioC.R.txt") > getBioC() Running getBioC version 1.2.15.... If you encounter problems, first make sure that you are running the latest version of getBioC() which can be found at: www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R Please direct any concerns or questions to bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch. [1] "Getting/installing packages reposTools and Biobase" unable to resolve 'www.bioconductor.org'. Error in getPkgDisc(isDevel, version) : The url: http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/release1.1/package/PACKAGES does not seem to have a valid PACKAGES file. regards, Leah

What version of R are you using? > Hello, > > Here is the error I got when trying to install bioconductor on Windows XP. > Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. > > > > source("H:\\Data\\Rcode\\getBioC.R.txt") > > getBioC() > Running getBioC version 1.2.15.... > If you encounter problems, first make sure that > you are running the latest version of getBioC() > which can be found at: www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R > > Please direct any concerns or questions to bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch. > > [1] "Getting/installing packages reposTools and Biobase" > unable to resolve 'www.bioconductor.org'. > Error in getPkgDisc(isDevel, version) : The url: > http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/release1.1/package/PACKAGES does not > seem to have a valid PACKAGES file. > > regards, > Leah > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >

> Here is the error I got when trying to install bioconductor on Windows XP. > Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. > Error in getPkgDisc(isDevel, version) : The url: > http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/release1.1/package/PACKAGES does not > seem to have a valid PACKAGES file. Most likely your R session can not access the internet. Try this: > z <- url("http://www.bioconductor.org/main.html") > readLines(z) This should produce output without errors. -J