I'm trying to use the ensemblVEP package, but I keep getting an error because the useastdb.ensembl.org site appears to be down. I can't figure out how to change the host - VEPParam supposedly contains this information, but my efforts to change it keep throwing errors because it doesn't recognize the version I'm supplying even though I'm using one listed as available (82). 

I'm really frustrated - can anyone help?

Thanks,

Claire