I am having some trouble installing the bioconductor package in R, it is
hanging at the "testing if installed packages can be loaded" part

    source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
    #Installing package into ‘/homexxx/lib/R’
    #(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
    #trying URL
'http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc/src/contrib/BiocInstaller_1.10.2.tar.gz'
    #Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 13424 bytes (13 Kb)
    #opened URL
    #==================================================
    #downloaded 13 Kb
    #
    #* installing *source* package ‘BiocInstaller’ ...
    #** R
    #** inst
    #** preparing package for lazy loading
    #** help
    #*** installing help indices
    #** building package indices
    #** testing if installed package can be loaded
    #^C
    #No traceback available
    #* removing ‘/home/xxx/lib/R/BiocInstaller’
    #
    #The downloaded source packages are in
    #        ‘/tmp/Rtmpb2nVhP/downloaded_packages’
    #'biocLite.R' failed to install 'BiocInstaller', use
    #  'install.packages("BiocInstaller",
    #  repos="http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc")'

 Here is R version:

R --version
R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) -- "Good Sport"Copyright (C) 2013 The R
Foundation for Statistical ComputingPlatform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
(64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.You are
welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3.For more information about
these matters see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.


I also tried install.packages("BiocInstaller", repos="
http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc") as indicated in the error
message, but no luck there either.

Best regards,

Kaiyin ZHONG
------------------------------
Forensic Molecular Biology, Erasmus MC
k.zhong@erasmusmc.nl
kindlychung@gmail.com

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