On Thursday 02 October 2003 19:40, bioconductor- request@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: > From: St?phanie Mottier < > > Subject: [BioC] Problems with getBioC/R > I'm trying to install Bioconductor on my iBook (Mac OS X, 256MB, 600MHz > PowerPC G3). > I have dowload the R version 1.7.1 via CRAN and I'm not able to install > getBioC. > I have got this message : > "Error in getBioC() : Your R is not currently configured to allow HTTP > connections, which is required for getBioC to work properly." > What can I do? > What is the probl?me with R? As the error message states, your are not able to go online thorugh R. This is necessary in order to install BioC, because all the packages needs to be obtained from the web. I'm not to familiar with the Mac, but the standard problem would be one of the following 1) You do not have any internet access at all from your iBook. Test: Are you able to go online with your browser? Solution: get local help from your sys admin. 2) Otherwise you may have a problem with the firewall at your department. Solution: get local help from your sysadmin. The problem has nothing to do with R and BioC and eveything to do with your local setup. A simple way to test if it works is to issue to command >CRAN.packages() from within R You may find more information on www.r-project.org (start by looking in the FAQSs). -- Kasper Daniel Hansen, Research Assistent Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen

On Friday 03 October 2003 11:41, you wrote: > On Windows one has to start R with the --internet2 command line option to > get it to connect to the internet > > Trying something similar on your Mac may work, though I know ZERO about > Macs :-( Ill just forward this, as I wasn't the one having problems :) > wrote: > > From: St?phanie Mottier < > > > Subject: [BioC] Problems with getBioC/R > > > > I'm trying to install Bioconductor on my iBook (Mac OS X, 256MB, 600MHz > > PowerPC G3). > > I have dowload the R version 1.7.1 via CRAN and I'm not able to install > > getBioC. > > I have got this message : > > "Error in getBioC() : Your R is not currently configured to allow HTTP > > connections, which is required for getBioC to work properly." > > What can I do? > > What is the probl?me with R? > > As the error message states, your are not able to go online thorugh R. This > is necessary in order to install BioC, because all the packages needs to be > obtained from the web. > > I'm not to familiar with the Mac, but the standard problem would be one of > the following > 1) You do not have any internet access at all from your iBook. Test: Are > you able to go online with your browser? Solution: get local help from your > sys admin. > 2) Otherwise you may have a problem with the firewall at your department. > Solution: get local help from your sysadmin. > > The problem has nothing to do with R and BioC and eveything to do with your > local setup. > > A simple way to test if it works is to issue to command > > >CRAN.packages() > > from within R > > You may find more information on www.r-project.org (start by looking in the > FAQSs). -- Kasper Daniel Hansen, Research Assistent Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen