[BioC] biomaRt

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Fraser,

On 7/13/2010 12:16 PM, Fraser Sim wrote:
> I'm having a problem with biomaRt today. Is the service down? Or do I have
> another problem? Thanks.

Rather than asking here, wouldn't it be easier to just fire up a browser 
and see if the web service is available? That's what I just did, and I 
get no response, so there is your answer...


Best,

Jim


>
>> 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
>
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