[BioC] bypassing firewall - destination ip address

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kishor Tappita" <kishor.tappita at gmail.com>
> To: bioconductor at r-project.org
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 4:34:05 AM
> Subject: [BioC] bypassing firewall - destination ip address
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to bypass firewall for Bioconductor URL inorder to be
> able
> to install several packages. I need to give the destination IP
> address
> for this purpose. But I realized to perform load balancing the ip
> address is being changed. I got this information by using the "ping"
> command on windows.
> 
> Could some one suggest me the ipadress(probably constant one) which I
> can use.
> 

You can use

140.107.3.20

But in order for this to work, you also need to do the following in R:

options(BioC_mirror="http://master.bioconductor.org")

Dan



> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> >
> 
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