minfi installation error

Question

[niutster]

Hi, I am trying to install minfi package on server since the installed R on server isnot the latest version i have to use some of minfi older version, to do this, i try to install minfi packages with this commands:

> require(devtools)
> install_version("minfi",version="1.18.2",repos="http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
but i get this error:
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R/src/contrib:
  cannot open URL 'http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
Error in package_find_repo(package, repos) :
  couldn't find package 'minfi'

I tried more times ,can anybody help me to solve this problem?

[niutster]

R installation has more problems than it.

[GenoMax]

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It appears that your server may not be allowing outbound http access to bioconductor.org. Have you looked in that?

Answer 1

[WouterDeCoster]

Better would be to just install the latest R version...