Sir I am having problem with the installation of Bioconductor as when I am typing the following command source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") from R command window the system is giving the following error msg Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: unable to connect to 'www.bioconductor.org' on port 80. Can someone help thanks in advance ********************************************************************** Ankur Kapil M. Tech II yr Chemical Engineering IIT Bombay phone no 09869227032 Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi

> I am having problem with the installation of Bioconductor > as when I am typing the following command > source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") > from R command window > the system is giving the following error msg > Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > unable to connect to 'www.bioconductor.org' on port 80. http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#The-internet- download-functions-fail_002e

You probably want to configure your R environment variable "http_proxy" to recognise your proxy server. # configure Sys.putenv("http_proxy"="http://[your proxy server address]:[Port number]") # check it Sys.getenv("http_proxy") source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") getBioc() marcus >>> Jeff Gentry <jgentry@jimmy.harvard.edu> 10/12/2004 3:37:17 AM >>> > I am having problem with the installation of Bioconductor > as when I am typing the following command > source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") > from R command window > the system is giving the following error msg > Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > unable to connect to 'www.bioconductor.org' on port 80. http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#The-internet- download-functions-fail_002e _______________________________________________ Bioconductor mailing list Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor ______________________________________________________ The contents of this e-mail are privileged and/or confidenti...{{dropped}}