[BioC] Rcurl 0.8-1 update for bioconductor 2.7

[Patrick Aboyoun]

Bob,
I am not sure what caused the download issue you experienced. Sometimes 
there are some "hidden" firewall issues that may have prevented you from 
downloading the Windows binary package. I just checked on my computer 
and was able to grab RCurl from the bioconductor website.

 > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
 > biocLite("RCurl")
Running biocinstall version 2.2.9 with R version 2.7.0
Your version of R requires version 2.2 of BioConductor.
Warning in install.packages(pkgs = pkgs, repos = repos, dependencies = 
dependencies,  :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using 
'C:\Users\patrick\Documents/R/win-library/2.7'
trying URL 
'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/extra/bin/windows/contrib/2.7/RCurl_0.9-3.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1329482 bytes (1.3 Mb)
opened URL
downloaded 1.3 Mb

package 'RCurl' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded packages are in
        C:\Users\patrick\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmplphLQ6\downloaded_packages
updating HTML package descriptions
 > library(RCurl)
 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United 
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United 
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

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

other attached packages:
[1] RCurl_0.9-3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.7.0


If you are still having problems, could you send me more information 
(offline if necessary) and maybe we can pin down what the issue is?


Patrick



Bob Xiong wrote:
> I tried biocLite("RCurl") but got the following error msg.
>
>  
>
>   
>> biocLite("RCurl")
>>     
>
> Running biocinstall version 2.2.9 with R version 2.7.0 
>
> Your version of R requires version 2.2 of BioConductor.
>
> trying URL
> 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/extra/bin/windows/contrib/2.7/RCur
> l_0.9-3.zip'
>
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : 
>
>   cannot open URL
> 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/extra/bin/windows/contrib/2.7/RCur
> l_0.9-3.zip'
>
> In addition: Warning message:
>
> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>
>   cannot open: HTTP status was '0 (nil)'
>
> Warning in download.packages(p0, destdir = tmpd, available = available,
> :
>
>   download of package 'RCurl' failed
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>  
>
> Patrick, could you take a look?
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> Thanks,
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>  
>
> Bob Xiong, Ph.D.
>
> Tandem Labs
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