Hi everybody, I have installed R package and trying to install Bioconductor in that. I am following the command lines given for bioconductor installation. Whenever I am trying to do so, a message is dispalyed that there is a problem in doing so. The followings are statements follwed my effort to get bioconductor locally. >source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: unable to resolve 'www.bioconductor.org'. Kindly help me in this regard, I will be highly thankful to you. Shipra

Hi Shipra, On 30 Aug 2005, shipra at jncasr.ac.in wrote: > The followings are statements follwed my effort to get bioconductor > locally. > >> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") > Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) : > unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > unable to resolve 'www.bioconductor.org'. The error message indicates that R is unable to connect to the internet. You might verify that you can browse www.biconductor.org in your browser. You might ask your sysadmin if you are behind a proxy. If that is the case, try reading the help for download.file. + seth