[BioC] bioconductor

[Seth Falcon]

"Kesavan Asaithambi" <asaithambi at ntu.edu.sg> writes:

> Hi,
>
>  
>
> I am trying to install Bioconductor software on our server with Red Hat
> Linux Enterprise (Server) edition version 4, 32GB Ram and automatic
> proxy configuration (http://www.ntu.edu.sg/proxy.pac) setting.
>
> from http://www.bioconductor.org <http://www.bioconductor.org/>  website
> but couldn't install.
>
>  
>
> I encounter the following errors highlighted in RED when I try to
> download from the website.

Sorry, my mail client is color blind. :-P

>> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>
> Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>
>         unable to open connection
>
> In addition: Warning message:
>
> unable to connect to 'www.bioconductor.org' on port 80.
>  
>
> How do I setup the proxy setting on my LINUX RH4 server.

Try reading the help for download.packages and also consult the R
Admin guide.  You should find details for web proxy configuration
there.

If not, try asking for help on R-help since this is really not a
Bioconductor specific issue.

+ seth