I am trying to download the file gds1917 from GEO using getGEO, but am
receiving an error

> library(GEOquery)

> gds <- getGEO("gds1917")

trying URL
'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/data/gds/soft_gz/GDS1917.soft.gz'

Error in download.file(myurl, destfile, mode = mode) : 

        cannot open URL
'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/data/gds/soft_gz/GDS1917.soft.gz'

 

it looks like getGEO is looking in the wrong place for the file. The ftp
address is actually

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/SOFT/GDS/GDS1917.soft.gz

 

am I doing something wrong?

 

Thank you,

 

Dennis

 


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