[BioC] biomaRt

[Fraser Sim]

I'm having a problem with biomaRt today. Is the service down? Or do I have
another problem? Thanks.

> Hs.ensembl = useMart("ensembl", dataset="hsapiens_gene_ensembl")
Checking attributes ...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.

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) 
i386-pc-mingw32 

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

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

other attached packages:
 [1] biomaRt_2.2.0          annotationTools_1.18.0 Biobase_2.6.1         
 [4] gplots_2.7.4           caTools_1.10           bitops_1.0-4.1        
 [7] gdata_2.6.1            gtools_2.6.1           RColorBrewer_1.0-2    
[10] RODBC_1.3-1            rcom_2.2-1             rscproxy_1.3-1        

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] RCurl_1.3-0 XML_2.6-0  
 
Thanks,
Fraser