[BioC] MacOS Package installation problems

Wed May 30 18:19:38 CEST 2012

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Michael Salbaum
<Michael.Salbaum at pbrc.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Newbie question:
>
> I'm having trouble with package installation on a Mac (OS 10.6.8)
>
>>  source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>>     biocLite("DESeq")
> BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org
> Using R version 2.15, BiocInstaller version 1.4.4.
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://brainarray.mbni.med.umich.edu/bioc/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.15
> Installing package(s) 'DESeq'
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.sixsigmaonline.org/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.15
> Error: Line starting '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLI ...' is malformed!
>
> Dialing into http://cran.sixsigmaonline.org/bin/ only lists a linux directory, but no macosx
>
> Advice  is greatly appreciated - thanks!

I would suggest using bioconductor.org as your repository.
Try:
chooseBioCmirror()
And choose the "Seattle" option.

Dan

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