[BioC] package download

Jeff Gentry jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu
Tue Mar 25 13:15:53 MET 2003


> I guess it may be due to the company firewall. How can I configure R to

Most likely.

> allow HTTP connections or is there other way so I can download and install
> the bundle packages for window?

You might want to see this message from the R-help mailing list.
http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/03a/0690.html

Note that currently getBioC (and the reposTools package) only supports the
internal download methods, and not the others (wget, etc) and that most
likely you'll need to use wget.  I'm looking right now at how to provide
this functionality.

-J



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