Hi Robert
It looks like the registry information for that archive is not  
correct. I will forward this bug to our web team and let you know when  
it has been fixed. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Regards
Rhoda

On 20 Oct 2011, at 15:17, Robert Castelo wrote:

> Dear Rhoda,
>
> i was unsuccessfully trying to connect to the human ensembl genes
> dataset of the archived Ensembl release 63 and i just wondered whether
> this problem has anything to do with your annoucement below or whether
> i'm doing anything wrong. here is the code:
>
> ## following the example of page 15 of the biomaRt vignette
> ## adapted to the release 63
> library(biomaRt)
> listMarts(host="jun2011.archive.ensembl.org")
>               biomart               version
> 1 ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL      Ensembl Genes 63
> 2     ENSEMBL_MART_SNP  Ensembl Variation 63
> 3 ENSEMBL_MART_FUNCGEN Ensembl Regulation 63
> 4    ENSEMBL_MART_VEGA               Vega 43
> 5             REACTOME              Reactome
> 6                pride        PRIDE (EBI UK)
> ensembl63 <- useMart(host="jun2011.archive.ensembl.org",
> biomart="ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL", dataset="hsapiens_gene_ensembl")
> Error in useDataset(mart = mart, dataset = dataset, verbose =
> verbose) :
>  The given dataset:  hsapiens_gene_ensembl , is not valid.  Correct
> dataset names can be obtained with the listDatasets function.
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
> methods
> [8] base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] Biobase_2.12.1 biomaRt_2.8.0
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] RCurl_1.5-0 XML_3.4-0
>
>
> thanks!
> robert.
>
>
> On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 13:11 +0100, Rhoda Kinsella wrote:
>> Dear all
>>
>> All Sanger-based Ensembl websites and related services will go  
>> offline
>> around midday tomorrow, Friday 21st October until the evening of
>> Sunday 23rd October. This will affect the main Ensembl website,
>> archives, Pre! and beta. Mirror sites (US and Asia) will remain
>> available, but Sanger-dependent services, including BLAST and user
>> accounts, will be disabled.
>>
>> For Ensembl BioMart users this will mean that you will not be able to
>> query the Ensembl marts from www.biomart.org or www.ensembl.org. You
>> will be able to access release 64 Ensembl marts via the mirrors at:
>>
>> http://uswest.ensembl.org/index.html
>> http://useast.ensembl.org/index.html
>> http://asia.ensembl.org/index.html
>>
>>
>> We hope that the datacentre restart will go smoothly and the sites
>> will be back online by Monday morning at the latest - if you find a
>> site is not working as expected by noon UK time, please let us know  
>> so
>> that we can investigate.
>>
>> Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Rhoda
>>
>>
>> Rhoda Kinsella Ph.D.
>> Ensembl Production Project Leader,
>> European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI),
>> Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,
>> Hinxton
>> Cambridge CB10 1SD,
>> UK.
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>

Rhoda Kinsella Ph.D.
Ensembl Production Project Leader,
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI),
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,
Hinxton
Cambridge CB10 1SD,
UK.


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