Hi Friends
I am getting the following error in using the GEOquery.  Funny thing is some
times it does not show any error with the same dataset. There was a
discussion about
this error here <
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2007-December/020471.html > .  I
want to known if there is any alternative solution is there for this problem
(changing the code). I am able to download the dataset (
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/SeriesMatrix/GSE8024/GSE8024_series_matrix.txt.gz)
using the wget.

dataset.name<-'GSE8024'
gse<- getGEO(dataset.name, destdir=".")
Found 1 file(s)
GSE8024_series_matrix.txt.gz
trying URL '
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/SeriesMatrix/GSE8024/GSE8024_series_matrix.txt.gz
'
Error in download.file(sprintf("
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/SeriesMatrix/%s/%s",  :
cannot open URL '
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/SeriesMatrix/GSE8024/GSE8024_series_matrix.txt.gz
'
Calls: getGEO -> getAndParseGSEMatrices -> download.file
Execution halted

Thank You
Sailu Yellaboina
Visiting Fellow
NIH, NIEHS

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