[BioC] Installing Bioconductor Packages

[Park-Ng, Zaneta]

Hi Pia,

We had the same problem at my workplace, and for us it was indeed a
firewall issue.  To get around it, we had to first find out the name of
our workplace's proxy server, and then get R to connect to this.  From
here R could then access external websites :-)

To get R to connect to the proxy server, you just need to run the
following:

Sys.putenv("http_proxy"="http://name_of_proxy_server")

A wee window may then pop up whereby you need to enter your username and
password if that's what you usually need to do to login, and then once
you've done this, you should be able to run the source line
successfully:

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")

Hopefully this does the trick for you?

Cheers,
Zaneta


-----Original Message-----
From: bioconductor-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:bioconductor-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Pia Sappl
Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2007 2:46 p.m.
To: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [BioC] Installing Bioconductor Packages

Hi

I have installed R on OS 10.4.9 and have been trying to install the
BioConductor packages without success.  

when I try to access the packages i get the following error:

> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) : 
	unable to open connection
In addition: Warning message:
unable to connect to 'bioconductor.org' on port 80.


Is there an easy way to overcome this problem?
I have looked at the posts and it seems to be a firewall issue? but I
couldn't solve it.

Thankyou
Pia

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Dr Pia Sappl
Monash University
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Pia Sappl

School of Biological Sciences 
Monash University
Victoria 3800
Australia

Phone: +61 3 9902 0053
Fax: +61 3 9905 5613

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