[BioC] error in bioconductor installation

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:46 AM, kalesh karun <karunkmk at gmail.com> wrote:
> sir,
> Am not able to solve the problem, what may be the reason?

(i) Kindly outline the steps you've tried to solve your problem.

(ii) Can you install other R packages from cran via the
"install.packages" function ... try installing plyr for example:

R> install.packages('plyr')

What happens?

-steve

>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Steve Lianoglou
> <mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please keep all correspondence on list so that others can help (ie.
>> make sure that bioconductor at r-help.org appears in the CC field of your
>> replies -- easy to do by pressing "reply all")
>>
>> Comments in line:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:31 PM, kalesh karun <karunkmk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> sir , following are the complete information
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > R version: R 2.12.1
>> >
>> > O S : windows 7 (prof)
>> >
>> > command :  source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>> >
>> > error : "Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>> >>  cannot open the connection
>> >> In addition: Warning message:
>> >> In file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>> >>  unable to connect to 'bioconductor.org' on port 80."
>> >
>> >
>> > I am able to access:
>> >
>> > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor/32569
>>
>> I didn't paste that URL to see if you can simply access it  ... I
>> actually wanted you to read it :-)
>>
>> The original poster was apparently having the same problems as you,
>> and Martin Morgan suggested that the solution to the problem the
>> original poster (and now you) are apparently having might be found by
>> looking through the resources available at:
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html
>>
>> Specifically the windows faq:
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html
>>
>> > and I am working under proxy internet connection.
>>
>> Yes, exactly.
>>
>> I'm guessing section 2.19 of the windows FAQ ("The Internet download
>> functions fail") might be useful to you.
>>
>> -steve
>>
>> --
>> Steve Lianoglou
>> Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
>>  | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
>>  | Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>> Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact
>
>



-- 
Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
 | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
 | Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact