Unable to install Bioconductor packages with biocLite...

[gmpune]

Hi,

I'm very new to R/Bioconductor. Presently I'm trying to fetch and install BioC packages using the biocLite route, but it's stumbling. Here's the error I get:

> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
Error in source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") :
http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R:1:1: unexpected '<'
1: <
^

Could somebody please suggest a way out? I'm on Windows 7 and behind a proxy server (no username/pwd authentication required though).

Thanks a lot and good day!

[dpryan]

I wonder if your proxy is screwing things up. You can download that file, double check that it's not corrupted, and then try sourcing it directly. What version of R are you using (just post the output of sessionInfo() ).

[gmpune]

Thanks for replying, dpryan. But I'm not sure I understand you correctly. Which file are you referring to? btw I'm on R v3.0.1:

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_India.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_India.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_India.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_India.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

Thanks again.

[dpryan]

The file I'm referring to is biocLite.R. You can just download it directly and double check it, since that's what's producing the error.

[gmpune]

I downloaded the biocLite.R file to a local folder and then tried running it directly. Seems like an html problem:

> biocLite("NOISeq")
Line starting '<HTML><HEAD> ...' is malformed!, using
'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc'
Error: Line starting '<HTML><HEAD> ...' is malformed!

Is there something obvious I'm missing?
Thanks.

[rxzlmn]

whatever is being downloaded contains HTML tags, so it is not the correct file. do not use a browser and 'save page', rather download it directly, or open the document in the browser and copy out the text.

[gmpune]

Hi rxzlmn,

Actually that's what I did (so hard to understand the html tags...), I just opened the biocLite.R file in Firefox and then copy-pasted it into Notepad++.

[amitbik]

Error in updating biocLite() package

Hi There..

I have installed R version 3.0.2 when i am trying to update bioconducter packages i am geting following error

> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
Bioconductor version 2.13 (BiocInstaller 1.12.0), ?biocLite for help
> biocLite()
BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org
Using Bioconductor version 2.13 (BiocInstaller 1.12.0), R version 3.0.2.
Warning message:
installed directory not writable, cannot update packages 'foreign', 'spatial',
'survival'

I have change the installed directory permission also but still i am geting this error.
can anyone help to find out the error..

Thanks..

[rboettcher]

You can try to run R via sudo and see if the problems persist.

[amitbik]

Thanks... rboettcher

It worked for me..