Sorry to pick up an old thread here, but I'm having the same issue, and also unable to find much of an answer after some searching.
Thanks for any and all help!
I'm running the command below
getGEO('GSE3118')
In the following setting
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
[8] base
other attached packages:
[1] affy_1.44.0         ArrayExpress_1.26.0 GEOquery_2.32.0
[4] Biobase_2.26.0      BiocGenerics_0.12.0 RMySQL_0.9-3
[7] DBI_0.3.1
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] affyio_1.34.0         BiocInstaller_1.16.1  limma_3.22.1
[4] preprocessCore_1.28.0 RCurl_1.95-4.3        XML_3.98-1.1
[7] zlibbioc_1.12.0
You will need to give us more than that to go on. This works for me:
> geo <- getGEO('GSE3118')
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/series/GSE3nnn/GSE3118/matrix/
Found 1 file(s)
GSE3118_series_matrix.txt.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  150k  100  150k    0     0  98938      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 98890
File stored at:
/data3/tmp/RtmpC8WWiS/GPL2750.soft
> geo[[1]]
ExpressionSet (storageMode: lockedEnvironment)
assayData: 36541 features, 3 samples
  element names: exprs
protocolData: none
phenoData
  sampleNames: GSM69721 GSM69722 GSM69723
  varLabels: title geo_accession ... data_row_count (32 total)
  varMetadata: labelDescription
featureData: none
experimentData: use 'experimentData(object)'
Annotation: GPL2750
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
attached base packages:
[1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
[8] base     
other attached packages:
[1] GEOquery_2.32.0     Biobase_2.26.0      BiocGenerics_0.12.1
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] bitops_1.0-6   RCurl_1.95-4.5 XML_3.98-1.1  
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