R help - Dec 2006 - biocondutor installation problem

Hi,

 

I am trying to install Bioconductor software on our server with Red Hat
Linux Enterprise (Server) edition version 4, 32GB Ram and automatic
proxy configuration (http://www.ntu.edu.sg/proxy.pac) setting.

from http://www.bioconductor.org <http://www.bioconductor.org/>  website
but couldn't install.

 

I encounter the following errors highlighted in RED when I try to
download from the website.

 
> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) :

        unable to open connection

In addition: Warning message:

unable to connect to 'www.bioconductor.org' on port 80.

 

 

I place the address "http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R" in my

browser (MOZILLA-LINUX SERVER) the output is below. 

 

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

 

biocLite <- function(pkgs, groupName="lite", ...)

{

    if (missing(pkgs))

        getBioC(groupName=groupName, ...)

    else

        getBioC(pkgs=pkgs, groupName=groupName, ...)

}

 

How do I setup the browser setting on my LINUX RH4 server?

 

 

Please guide how we can get rid of these errors.

 

 

Thanks

 

K.Asaithambi
Laboratory Executive
Nanyang Technological University
BioInformatics Research Centre (BIRC)
50 Nanyang Drive, Research Techno Plaza
XFrontiers Block, 3rd Storey
Singapore 637553

 

 


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I'm pretty sure your subject should be:

  Help configure R to use web proxy on RHEL4.

You don't have a Bioconductor specific problem (yet).

"Kesavan Asaithambi" <asaithambi at ntu.edu.sg>
writes:
>> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>
> Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>
>         unable to open connection
>
> In addition: Warning message:
>
> unable to connect to 'www.bioconductor.org' on port 80.
Did you try reading the help for download.file?  Start R and then do:

   help(download.file)

+ seth