[BioC] DB connection error

[sdurinck@ebi.ac.uk]

Hi Michel,

You are probably behind a firewall which doesn't allow MySQL queries to go
through.  Either ask systems to enable MySQL queries or have a local
install of Ensembl mart and use biomaRt on that database.

best,
Steffen


>
> Xiwei Wu,
>
> I get same issue, did you solve your problem ?
> It seems to me that the DBI driver is not appropriate to R2.2...
>
> 	regards
>
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> Dear list:
>
> I just installed biomaRt1.4.0, RMySQL, and DBI. I am using R2.2.0 with
> BioC 1.7. I got error message when trying to connect mart:
>
>> mart <- martConnect()
> Error in mysqlNewConnection(drv, ...) : RS-DBI driver: (could not
> connect anonymous at ensembldb.ensembl.org on dbname "(null)")
>
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