Hi Alejandra,

You can switch to the ensembl website by doing:

ensembl=useMart("ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL",host="www.ensembl.org
",dataset="mmusculus_gene_ensembl")

Best,
Steffen


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Alejandra Medina [guest] <
guest@bioconductor.org> wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I having problems accessing biomart through R, and the website is down.
>
> Thanks
> Alejandra
>
>
>
>  -- output of sessionInfo():
>
> > library ("biomaRt")
> > listMarts()
> Request to BioMart web service failed. Verify if you are still connected
> to the internet.  Alternatively the BioMart web service is temporarily
> down.  Check http://www.biomart.org and verify if this website is
> available.
>
> >sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] C/UTF-8/C/C/C/C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] biomaRt_2.14.0
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] RCurl_1.95-4.1 XML_3.96-1.1
>
>
>
>
>
>
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