BiocInstaller_1.16.5.zip not found when using biocLite("BiocUpgrade")
1
0
Entering edit mode
dan.gatti • 0
@dangatti-7637
Last seen 8.0 years ago

I just installed R 3.3 and was trying to upgrade my Bioconductor packages. But I ran into an odd "404 file not found" error with the BiocInstaller file.

> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
Bioconductor version 2.14 (BiocInstaller 1.14.3), ?biocLite for help
A newer version of Bioconductor is available for this version of R, ?BiocUpgrade for help
> biocLite("BiocUpgrade")
Upgrade all packages to Bioconductor version 3.0? [y/n]: y
Installing package into ‘C:/Program Files/R/library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/src/contrib/BiocInstaller_1.16.5.zip'
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
  cannot open URL 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/src/contrib/BiocInstaller_1.16.5.zip'
Bioconductor version 2.14 (BiocInstaller 1.14.3), ?biocLite for help
A newer version of Bioconductor is available for this version of R, ?BiocUpgrade for help
'BiocInstaller' changed to version 1.14.3
BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org
Using Bioconductor version 2.14 (BiocInstaller 1.14.3), R version 3.3.0.
Temporarily using Bioconductor version 2.14


I found another post from an earlier version of Bioconductor that suggested modifying the method that R uses to download files.  I tried all of the options in the 'method' argument of download.files().

> url = "http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/src/contrib/BiocInstaller_1.16.5.zip"
> download.file(url = url, destfile = tempfile())
trying URL 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/src/contrib/BiocInstaller_1.16.5.zip'
Error in download.file(url = url, destfile = tempfile()) :
  cannot open URL 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/src/contrib/BiocInstaller_1.16.5.zip'
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(url = url, destfile = tempfile()) :
  cannot open URL 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/src/contrib/BiocInstaller_1.16.5.zip': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
> download.file(url = url, destfile = tempfile(), method = "wget")
Warning messages:
1: running command 'wget  "http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/src/contrib/BiocInstaller_1.16.5.zip" -O "C:\Users\dgatti\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp4U20cX\file12147eab173b"' had status 127
2: In download.file(url = url, destfile = tempfile(), method = "wget") :
  download had nonzero exit status

I'm omitting the similar results from the other methods that I tried.  I can see http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/ in my web browser just fine.

Any thoughts here? From my end, it looks like BiocInstaller_1.16.5.zip isn't in http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/src/contrib/, but that seems like an unlikely oversight on the part of the Bioconductor team.

Thanks,

Dan

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] BiocInstaller_1.14.3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.3.0
bioclite biocupgrade • 1.4k views
ADD COMMENT
0
Entering edit mode

Do this: Start an R session like this

R --vanilla

then

remove.packages("BiocInstaller") # keep doing this till R says there is no such package
source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite() # to update all outdated pkgs, answer 'a' when prompted
ADD REPLY
0
Entering edit mode
dan.gatti • 0
@dangatti-7637
Last seen 8.0 years ago

That worked.  Awesome.  Thanks.

ADD COMMENT

Login before adding your answer.

Traffic: 944 users visited in the last hour
Help About
FAQ
Access RSS
API
Stats

Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy.

Powered by the version 2.3.6