Hi I having problems accessing biomart through R, and the website is down. Thanks Alejandra -- output of sessionInfo(): > library ("biomaRt") > listMarts() Request to BioMart web service failed. Verify if you are still connected to the internet. Alternatively the BioMart web service is temporarily down. Check http://www.biomart.org and verify if this website is available. >sessionInfo() R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] C/UTF-8/C/C/C/C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] biomaRt_2.14.0 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] RCurl_1.95-4.1 XML_3.96-1.1 -- Sent via the guest posting facility at bioconductor.org.

Hi Alejandra, You can switch to the ensembl website by doing: ensembl=useMart("ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL",host="www.ensembl.org ",dataset="mmusculus_gene_ensembl") Best, Steffen On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Alejandra Medina [guest] < guest@bioconductor.org> wrote: > > Hi > > I having problems accessing biomart through R, and the website is down. > > Thanks > Alejandra > > > > -- output of sessionInfo(): > > > library ("biomaRt") > > listMarts() > Request to BioMart web service failed. Verify if you are still connected > to the internet. Alternatively the BioMart web service is temporarily > down. Check http://www.biomart.org and verify if this website is > available. > > >sessionInfo() > R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) > Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit) > > locale: > [1] C/UTF-8/C/C/C/C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] biomaRt_2.14.0 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] RCurl_1.95-4.1 XML_3.96-1.1 > > > > > > > -- > Sent via the guest posting facility at bioconductor.org. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]