[BioC] postForm in RCurl

[Ovokeraye Achinike-Oduaran]

Hi all,

I was trying to retrieve some information from the GWAS catalog using
the postForm() function. I get an error (below the script). I can't
seem to figure out where I went wrong in my script. Please help.

-Avoks

>  data = postForm("http://www.genome.gov/GWAStudies/#searchForm",
+ disease = c("Fasting glucose-related traits",
+ "Fasting insulin-related traits",
+ "Fasting plasma glucose",
+ "Insulin resistance/response",
+ "Insulin traits",
+ "Type 2 diabetes",
+ "Type 2 diabetes and 6 quantitative traits",
+ "Type 2 diabetes and other traits"),
+ submit = "Search")

Error in postForm("http://www.genome.gov/GWAStudies/#searchForm",
disease = c("Fasting glucose-related traits",  :
  Failure when receiving data from the peer

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.2 (2011-09-30)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_xxx  LC_CTYPE=English_xxx
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_xxx LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_xxx

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

other attached packages:
[1] RCurl_1.6-10.1  bitops_1.0-4.1  puma_2.4.0      mclust_3.4.10
[5] affy_1.30.0     limma_3.8.3     GEOquery_2.19.4 Biobase_2.12.2

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] affyio_1.20.0         preprocessCore_1.14.0 tools_2.13.2
[4] XML_3.4-2.2