[BioC] GEOquery -> cannot open URL 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/SeriesMatrix/ ....

[Manca Marco (PATH)]

Dear Sean, dear BioConductors

I am having some troubles using GEOquery. In fact, it won't connect to the GEO to download any data... I have tried even with datasets from the vignette and the result is the same. The website is working though (I can access the data if I use a browser i.e.: Firefox3.6.13) and my R can currently connect, as I have no problem using KEGGSOAP as instance.

Any suggestion? I am attaching my "code" and sessionInfo().

Thank you in advance and best regards,
Marco


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> library(GEOquery)
Loading required package: Biobase

Welcome to Bioconductor

  Vignettes contain introductory material. To view, type
  'openVignette()'. To cite Bioconductor, see
  'citation("Biobase")' and for packages 'citation(pkgname)'.

> gds <- getGEO("GDS1")
Error in download.file(myurl, destfile, mode = mode, quiet = TRUE) : 
  cannot open URL 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/SOFT/GDS/GDS1.soft.gz'
> gse <- getGEO("GSE462")
Found 1 file(s)
GSE462_series_matrix.txt.gz
trying URL 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/SeriesMatrix/GSE462/GSE462_series_matrix.txt.gz'
Error in download.file(sprintf("ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/SeriesMatrix/%s/%s",  : 
  cannot open URL 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/SeriesMatrix/GSE462/GSE462_series_matrix.txt.gz'

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C             
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=C             LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8       LC_NAME=C                
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C           
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C      

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

other attached packages:
[1] GEOquery_2.16.3 Biobase_2.10.0 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] RCurl_1.5-0 XML_3.2-0  
> 



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Marco Manca, MD
University of Maastricht
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML)
Cardiovascular Research Institute (CARIM)

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