[BioC] Bioconductor GEOquery package error

Sean Davis seandavi at gmail.com
Mon May 3 20:55:39 CEST 2010


On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Rahul Sharma <rahularjun86 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Sir/Madam
>
> I am Rahul Sharma, Research fellow from New Delhi India, i need to do some
> analysis on the GDS1825 dataset, i am using the GEOquery package of
> Bioconductor, following error occurs when i try to fetch the
> link.....internet connection is there on my system dnt know why it is not
> connecting to the ftp..
>
> ======================================================================
>
>> library(GEOquery)
> Loading required package: Biobase
>
> Welcome to Bioconductor
>
>  Vignettes contain introductory material. To view, type
>  'openVignette()'. To cite Bioconductor, see
>  'citation("Biobase")' and for packages 'citation(pkgname)'.
>
> Loading required package: RCurl
> Loading required package: bitops
>> gpl <- getGEO('GDS1825',destdir=".")
> Error in download.file(myurl, destfile, mode = mode, quiet = TRUE) :
>  cannot open URL '
> ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/SOFT/GDS/GDS1825.soft.gz'

Hi, Rahul.

This has nothing to do with GEOquery.  The ftp site is broken at NCBI
GEO; I'm checking with them about the details.

Sean



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