Dear Sir/ma'am, I'm using R-3.4.4 and TCGAbiolinks package for the analysis of GDC data. Till today i have reintalled R and R studio for 5 times but one error comes when i analyze the GDC data at the step GDCprepare. the data i am using is not a legacy data of GDC data portal. I think the problem is with my Laptop only because i have run the same commands in another PC and there was no error. Thus i have uninstalled and again installed the R but the error is not going. Today i have installed the developer version of TCGAbiolinks. and the error is still there. I have attached the code used and the session info. Every time i run this GDCprepare command this same error comes as biomart service is not available. So i had contaced the Biomart people but they said that the Biomart is working fine. below is the complete R code i am usign with the corresponding error, library(TCGAbiolinks) query.exp <- GDCquery(project = "TCGA-LUAD", data.category = "Transcriptome Profiling", data.type = "Gene Expression Quantification", workflow.type = "HTSeq - Counts", experimental.strategy = "RNA-Seq") query_load <- GDCdownload(query.exp) luad.exp <- GDCprepare(query = query.exp, save = TRUE, save.filename "TCGA_LUAD_Exp.rda", summarizedExperiment = TRUE) |==================================================================================================| 100% 1 MB |==================================================================================================| 100% 1 MB |==================================================================================================| 100% 1 MB |==================================================================================================| 100% 1 MB |==================================================================================================| 100% 1 MB |==================================================================================================| 100% 1 MB |==================================================================================================| 100% 1 MB |==================================================================================================| 100% 1 MB |=======================================================================================================| 100% Starting to add information to samples => Add clinical information to samples Add FFPE information. More information at: => https://cancergenome.nih.gov/cancersselected/biospeccriteria => http://gdac.broadinstitute.org/runs/sampleReports/latest/FPPP_FFPE_Cases.html => Adding subtype information to samples luad subtype information from:doi:10.1038/nature13385 Request to BioMart web service failed. The BioMart web service you're accessing may be down. Check the following URL and see if this website is available: http://www.ensembl.org:80/biomart/martservice?type=registry&requestid=biomaRt Request to BioMart web service failed. The BioMart web service you're accessing may be down. Check the following URL and see if this website is available: http://uswest.ensembl.org:80/biomart/martservice?type=registry&requestid=biomaRt&redirect=no Error: $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors sessionInfo() R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 Matrix products: default locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] parallel stats4 stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] TCGAbiolinks_2.7.21 SummarizedExperiment_1.8.1 DelayedArray_0.4.1 matrixStats_0.53.1 [5] Biobase_2.38.0 GenomicRanges_1.30.0 GenomeInfoDb_1.14.0 IRanges_2.12.0 [9] S4Vectors_0.16.0 BiocGenerics_0.24.0 RColorBrewer_1.1-2 edgeR_3.20.9 [13] limma_3.34.9 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] colorspace_1.3-2 selectr_0.3-2 rjson_0.2.15 [4] hwriter_1.3.2 circlize_0.4.3 XVector_0.18.0 [7] GlobalOptions_0.0.13 ggpubr_0.1.6 matlab_1.0.2 [10] ggrepel_0.7.0 bit64_0.9-7 AnnotationDbi_1.40.0 [13] xml2_1.2.0 codetools_0.2-15 splines_3.4.4 [16] R.methodsS3_1.7.1 mnormt_1.5-5 doParallel_1.0.11 [19] DESeq_1.30.0 geneplotter_1.56.0 knitr_1.20 [22] jsonlite_1.5 Rsamtools_1.30.0 km.ci_0.5-2 [25] broom_0.4.3 annotate_1.56.1 cluster_2.0.6 [28] R.oo_1.21.0 readr_1.1.1 compiler_3.4.4 [31] httr_1.3.1 assertthat_0.2.0 Matrix_1.2-12 [34] lazyeval_0.2.1 prettyunits_1.0.2 tools_3.4.4 [37] bindrcpp_0.2 gtable_0.2.0 glue_1.2.0 [40] GenomeInfoDbData_1.0.0 reshape2_1.4.3 dplyr_0.7.4 [43] ggthemes_3.4.0 ShortRead_1.36.1 Rcpp_0.12.16 [46] Biostrings_2.46.0 nlme_3.1-131.1 rtracklayer_1.38.3 [49] iterators_1.0.9 psych_1.7.8 stringr_1.3.0 [52] rvest_0.3.2 XML_3.98-1.10 zoo_1.8-1 [55] zlibbioc_1.24.0 scales_0.5.0 aroma.light_3.8.0 [58] hms_0.4.2 curl_3.1 ComplexHeatmap_1.17.1 [61] memoise_1.1.0 gridExtra_2.3 KMsurv_0.1-5 [64] ggplot2_2.2.1 downloader_0.4 biomaRt_2.34.2 [67] latticeExtra_0.6-28 stringi_1.1.7 RSQLite_2.0 [70] genefilter_1.60.0 foreach_1.4.4 RMySQL_0.10.14 [73] GenomicFeatures_1.30.3 BiocParallel_1.12.0 shape_1.4.4 [76] rlang_0.2.0 pkgconfig_2.0.1 bitops_1.0-6 [79] lattice_0.20-35 purrr_0.2.4 bindr_0.1.1 [82] GenomicAlignments_1.14.1 cmprsk_2.2-7 bit_1.1-12 [85] plyr_1.8.4 magrittr_1.5 R6_2.2.2 [88] DBI_0.8 mgcv_1.8-23 pillar_1.2.1 [91] foreign_0.8-69 survival_2.41-3 RCurl_1.95-4.10 [94] tibble_1.4.2 EDASeq_2.12.0 survMisc_0.5.4 [97] GetoptLong_0.1.6 progress_1.1.2 locfit_1.5-9.1 [100] grid_3.4.4 sva_3.26.0 data.table_1.10.4-3 [103] blob_1.1.0 ConsensusClusterPlus_1.42.0 digest_0.6.15 [106] xtable_1.8-2 tidyr_0.8.0 R.utils_2.6.0 [109] munsell_0.4.3 survminer_0.4.2 I hope this helps to understand my problem. I look forward to hear from you Regards, Ankita [[alternative HTML version deleted]]