[BioC] GEOquery : 'cannot open URL'

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Thu Aug 31 17:36:39 CEST 2006


On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:22, Glazko, Galina wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> When I am trying to use GEOquery package, I get an error message:
> > gse <- getGEO("GSE1132")
>
> trying URL
> 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/data/geo/by_series/GSE462_family.soft.gz
> '
>
> Error in download.file(myurl, destfile, mode = mode) :
>
>         cannot open URL
> 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/data/geo/by_series/GSE462_family.soft.gz
> '
>
>
>
> May be I have to update the package or reinstall?

Yes, Galina.  You are correct.  NCBI GEO made changes to the URL for 
downloading a few weeks ago.  You will need GEOquery 1.7.2, I believe.

Sean



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