Dear All, I installed R on linux red-hat 7.3. I tried to run getBioC() script, which download R packages from bioconductor site, but I get the followin error message: Error in getBioC() : Your R is not currently configured to allow HTTP connections, which is required for getBioC to work properly. How do I configure R correctly? Thanks, Ron

> Error in getBioC() : Your R is not currently configured to allow HTTP > connections, which is required for getBioC to work properly. That error appears in two different locations. The first is if you do not have the 'http/ftp' capability set. Try 'capabilities(what="http/ftp")'. If this is FALSE - your best bet is to ask this question on R-help. The second location is immediately after that check. The getBioC function will attempt to read from "http://www.bioconductor.org/main.html" to insure that it can access URLs properly. If the first test succeeds and this fails, it is most likely due to firewalling issues. I've uploaded a new version of getBioC.R to the server (1.2.32) which now has different error messages for these two situations. The error that you received will now only apply to the case where one does not have the proper capabilities in their R, and in the case where R can not access Bioconductor it will tell you that specifically. You might want to try the new version of gBC() to narrow down your problem. -J

Look at your firewall (iptables or ipchains) if you are the root user, contact your administrator if not. Good luck! A.S. ---------------------------- Alessandro Semeria Models and Simulations Laboratory The Environment Research Center - Montecatini (Edison Group), Via Ciro Menotti 48, 48023 Marina di Ravenna (RA), Italy Tel. +39 544 536811 Fax. +39 544 538663 E-mail: asemeria@cramont.it