[BioC] downloading Bioconductor

[Jeff Gentry]

> My operating system is XPpro, and I have successfully run updates from
> my laptop, which uses XPpro as well.

What does "run updates" mean?

You run update.packages()?

Or do you mean that you are using internet functionality outside of R?

> I tried adding --internet2 to the target line on the desktop shortcut,
> with no improvement
> Can you suggest something that will allow me to download Bioconductor? 

Do you need to set up a proxy? (as per the other suggestion in the
R-windows FAQ)