[BioC] biomaRt connection problems

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Mick,

michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've been having biomaRt connection problems all morning:
> 
>> library(biomaRt)
>> mart <- useMart("ensembl", "btaurus_gene_ensembl")
> Error in value[[3L]](cond) :
>   Request to BioMart web service failed. Verify if you are still connected to the internet.  Alternatively the BioMart web service is temporarily down.
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "r") : InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The operation timed out'
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> i386-pc-mingw32
> 
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                            LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] biomaRt_2.4.0
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] RCurl_1.4-2 XML_3.1-0
> 
> Is anyone else having these issues, or is it just me?

I can't connect, nor can I get to the web page, so I assume their 
servers are down.

Best,

Jim


> 
> Thanks
> Mick
> 
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