[BioC] Problem in KEGGSOAP package

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Asta Laiho <asta.laiho at btk.fi> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> There seems to be some problem in the KEGGSOAP package:
>
>> library(KEGGSOAP)
> failed to load HTTP resource
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'KEGGSOAP', details:
>   call: NULL
>   error: 1: failed to load HTTP resource
>
> Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘KEGGSOAP’
>
> I wonder if this is related to the general discontinuation of the KEGG support announced last year?

The KEGG SOAP server was permanently shut down on December 31st, 2012.

Many of the APIs supported by this server are now available via the
KEGG REST API, and accordingly we are working on a KEGGREST package
which will be announced soon on this mailing list.
Dan


>
> Are there any plans to come up with a similar REACTOMESOAP package supporting Reactome database instead?
>
> Greetings,
> Asta
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] C/UTF-8/C/C/C/C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] BiocInstaller_1.8.3 BiocGenerics_0.4.0
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] RCurl_1.95-3    SSOAP_0.8-0     XML_3.95-0.1    XMLSchema_0.7-2
> [5] codetools_0.2-8 tools_2.15.1
>
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