Hello, I am using R2.8.0. I tried to use to.mart in bioMart, but I got the following error message. I know I am connecting to internet. > library("biomaRt") > to.mart <- useMart("ensembl","hsapiens_gene_ensembl") Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 3 and body Premature end of data in tag html line 1 Error: 1: Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 3 and body 2: Premature end of data in tag html line 1 > interactive() [1] TRUE When I debug to.mart, I got Browse[1]> debug: host = "http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice" Browse[1]> debug: marts = listMarts(host = host, includeHosts = TRUE, archive = archive) Browse[1]> Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 3 and body Premature end of data in tag html line 1 Error: 1: Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 3 and body 2: Premature end of data in tag html line 1 Then I went to http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice. But was pointed to "http://www.ebi.ac.uk/errors/failure.html". I also went to http://www.biomart.org. I clicked "BioMart Central Portal", and was pointed to "http://www.ebi.ac.uk/errors/failure.html" again. I guess this is the problem. Anybody had the same problem? Thanks, Di [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear Di, This hasn't happened often but it looks like the BioMart servers at EBI are down. Try surfing to: http://www.biomart.org it currently doesn't work. I assume this will be fixed asap by the BioMart team, there is nothing we can do from our (biomaRt) end. Cheers, Steffen > Hello, > > I am using R2.8.0. I tried to use to.mart in bioMart, but I got the > following error message. I know I am connecting to internet. > >> library("biomaRt") >> to.mart <- useMart("ensembl","hsapiens_gene_ensembl") > Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 3 and body > Premature end of data in tag html line 1 > Error: 1: Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 3 and body > 2: Premature end of data in tag html line 1 >> interactive() > [1] TRUE > > When I debug to.mart, I got > > Browse[1]> > debug: host = "http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice" > Browse[1]> > debug: marts = listMarts(host = host, includeHosts = TRUE, archive = > archive) > Browse[1]> > Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 3 and body > Premature end of data in tag html line 1 > Error: 1: Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 3 and body > 2: Premature end of data in tag html line 1 > > Then I went to http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice. But was pointed > to "http://www.ebi.ac.uk/errors/failure.html". > > I also went to http://www.biomart.org. I clicked "BioMart Central Portal", > and was pointed to "http://www.ebi.ac.uk/errors/failure.html" again. > I guess this is the problem. Anybody had the same problem? > > Thanks, > Di > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >