Hi

I've been having biomaRt connection problems all morning:

> library(biomaRt)
> mart <- useMart("ensembl", "btaurus_gene_ensembl")
Error in value[[3L]](cond) :
  Request to BioMart web service failed. Verify if you are still connected to the internet.  Alternatively the BioMart web service is temporarily down.
In addition: Warning message:
In file(file, "r") : InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The operation timed out'
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                            LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] biomaRt_2.4.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] RCurl_1.4-2 XML_3.1-0

Is anyone else having these issues, or is it just me?

Thanks
Mick


	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

