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Hi Pia, Please consider subscribing to the bioconductor list if you have not done so already. Pia Sappl <pia.sappl at="" sci.monash.edu.au=""> writes: > Hi > > I have installed R on OS 10.4.9 and have been trying to install the > BioConductor packages without success. > > when I try to access the packages i get the following error: > >> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") > Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) : > unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > unable to connect to 'bioconductor.org' on port 80. > > > Is there an easy way to overcome this problem? I have looked at the > posts and it seems to be a firewall issue? but I couldn't solve it. Are you able to browse to the Bioconductor website using Safari or Firefox? + seth -- Seth Falcon | Computational Biology | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://bioconductor.org

Hi Pia, We had the same problem at my workplace, and for us it was indeed a firewall issue. To get around it, we had to first find out the name of our workplace's proxy server, and then get R to connect to this. From here R could then access external websites :-) To get R to connect to the proxy server, you just need to run the following: Sys.putenv("http_proxy"="http://name_of_proxy_server") A wee window may then pop up whereby you need to enter your username and password if that's what you usually need to do to login, and then once you've done this, you should be able to run the source line successfully: source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") Hopefully this does the trick for you? Cheers, Zaneta -----Original Message----- From: bioconductor-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:bioconductor-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Pia Sappl Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2007 2:46 p.m. To: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [BioC] Installing Bioconductor Packages Hi I have installed R on OS 10.4.9 and have been trying to install the BioConductor packages without success. when I try to access the packages i get the following error: > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: unable to connect to 'bioconductor.org' on port 80. Is there an easy way to overcome this problem? I have looked at the posts and it seems to be a firewall issue? but I couldn't solve it. Thankyou Pia ------------- Dr Pia Sappl Monash University -- Pia Sappl School of Biological Sciences Monash University Victoria 3800 Australia Phone: +61 3 9902 0053 Fax: +61 3 9905 5613 _______________________________________________ Bioconductor mailing list Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor ====================================================================== = Attention: The information contained in this message and/or ...{{dropped}}