Hi Dana,

Thank you for reporting this issue.  It is not related to a BioMart 0.8
release but the unimart has no BioMart version assigned to on the BioMart
web service and the biomaRt function useMart currently requires that
information.
I let the BioMart developers know that unimart does not have a BioMart
version.
In addition, I also updated the biomaRt code so it can deal with this type
of event as it is not a critical parameter for biomaRt to do queries.

This updated biomaRt package should become available shortly from

http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc/html/biomaRt.html

You'll need biomaRt version 2.15.1 to get this fix.

Cheers,
Steffen

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Dana Pascovici [guest] <
guest@bioconductor.org> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I can no longer connect to the uniprot biomart as below; I imagine it has
> something to do with the Biomart 0.8 release, but could not find any
> information.  Would you be able to offer any suggestions, or know of any
> planned outages?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Dana
>
> > uniProt <- useMart("unimart")
> Error in read.table(con, sep = "\t", header = FALSE, quote = "",
> comment.char = "",  :
>   no lines available in input
>
>
>  -- output of sessionInfo():
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252
>  LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                       LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] biomaRt_2.10.0      BiocInstaller_1.2.1 rcom_2.2-3.1.1
>  rscproxy_1.3-1
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] fortunes_1.5-0 RCurl_1.91-1.1 tools_2.14.2   XML_3.95-0.1
>
>
> --
> Sent via the guest posting facility at bioconductor.org.
>

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