[BioC] biomaRt not working?

[john seers (IFR)]

Hello All

Can anyone tell me why I get this error using Biomart? I am connected to
the internet (as in I can install R packages). So is the Biomart website
really down? I have been having this problem for at least 2 or 3 days.

If I access http://www.biomart.org/ using a web browser it appears to be
available.


> listMarts()
Error in value[[3L]](cond) : 
  Request to BioMart web service failed. Verify if you are still
connected to the internet.  Alternatively the BioMart web service is
temporarily down.

If I access http://www.biomart.org/ using a web browser it appears to be
available.


Any suggestions as to what is going on or things to try are very
welcome.

Regards

John Seers


> sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17) 
i386-pc-mingw32 

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252

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


other attached packages:
[1] biomaRt_2.0.0 limma_2.18.0  affy_1.22.0   Biobase_2.4.1
RWinEdt_1.8-1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] affyio_1.12.0        preprocessCore_1.6.0 RCurl_0.95-1
tools_2.9.0          XML_2.3-0           
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