[BioC] Error with GEOquery

[Sharon]

Hi Sean,

I am trying to use GEOquery to download GSE data files from GEO.  When
I tried, I am getting the following error:

gse <- getGEO("GSE2718")

trying URL 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/data/geo/by_series/GSE2718/GSE2718_family.soft.gz'
ftp data connection made, file length 23892634 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 23332Kb

File stored at:
C:\DOCUME~1\Anbarasu\LOCALS~1\Temp\Rtmp8707/GSE2718.soft.gz
Parsing....
^PLATFORM = GPL2000
^SAMPLE = GSM49820
^SAMPLE = GSM65592
Error in regexpr(pattern, text, extended, fixed, useBytes) :
        invalid argument

my sessionInfo:

R version 2.2.0, 2005-10-06, i386-pc-mingw32

attached base packages:
[1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"    
"datasets"  "base"

other attached packages:
GEOquery
 "1.5.6"

Is it due to my R 2.2.0? I am using GEOquery on Windows XP with 1GB RAM.

And, another related question is: How can I use *getGEO() * with the
already downloaded GSE2718.soft.gz  file (to avoid subsequent
downlaoding).

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Sharon