[BioC] regarding the installation of packages

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:49 PM, shivam agrawal
<shivam.bioinfo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a LAN connection in my lab and facing this prblm of firewall/proxy.
> Kindly guide me how can i resolve this prblm.

The answer depends on what operating system you have.
If you send the output of sessionInfo() we can have more information
about your situation.
On windows, for example, you can start R as follows:

R --internet2

Dan


>
> On Oct 3, 2012 11:11 AM, "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:38 PM, shivam agrawal [guest]
>> <guest at bioconductor.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > i am trying to install the sequence analysis package
>>
>> Which package?
>>
>> >through the commands as given on the web site:
>>
>> Which web page:
>>
>> >
>> > source("http://bioconductor.org/scratch-repos/pkgInstall.R")
>> >
>> > Kindly help me out with this...
>> >
>> >  -- output of sessionInfo():
>> >
>> > it shows the following error message:
>> >
>> > Error in file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>> >   cannot open the connection
>> > In addition: Warning message:
>> > In file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>> >   unable to resolve 'bioconductor.org'
>>
>> You're missing a command here...what's the actual command that causes the
>> error?
>>
>> It looks like you're not connected to the internet, or maybe there is
>> a proxy/firewall issue.
>> Please post the output of the
>> sessionInfo()
>>
>> command.
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> >
>> > --
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