[BioC] installing bioconductor

[Dan Tenenbaum]

Hi Warren,


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Warren Pettitt" <warren.pettitt at arizonachristian.edu>
> To: bioconductor at r-project.org
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:22:04 AM
> Subject: [BioC] installing bioconductor
> 
> I first want to thank those responsible for such a great open source
> module.  I cannot seem to download it at work.  The error message I
> get
> is:
> 
> Installing package into
> 'C:/Users/warrenp/Documents/R/win-library/3.0'
> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
> trying URL
> 'http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/Bi
> ocInstaller_1.10.3.zip'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open URL
> 'http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/Bi
> ocInstaller_1.10.3.zip'
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open: HTTP status was '0 (nil)'
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available =
> available,
> :
>   download of package 'BiocInstaller' failed
> 'biocLite.R' failed to install 'BiocInstaller', use
>   'install.packages("BiocInstaller",
>   repos="http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc")'
> 
> In R I did change the "start in" property to a folder on my desktop.
> 
> I have tried using the install.packages message at the end of the
> error
> message and I get this message when I do that:
> 
> Installing package into
> 'C:/Users/warrenp/Documents/R/win-library/3.0'
> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
> trying URL
> 'http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/Bi
> ocInstaller_1.10.3.zip'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open URL
> 'http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/Bi
> ocInstaller_1.10.3.zip'
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>   cannot open: HTTP status was '0 (nil)'
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available =
> available,
> :
>   download of package 'BiocInstaller' failed
> 
> I have tried the FAQ sites and it may be there but I have not found
> help
> for this error message.  Thanks again for all your work on this open
> source site.

It could be that you are behind a restrictive firewall or proxy.

Do you get different results if you first enter the command:

setInternet2(TRUE)

?

Dan


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