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    Thanks Thomas,<br>
    Indeed the problem was with the internet connection, I'll be careful
    next time I connect from a coffee shop wiki spot ;)<br>
    Best,<br>
    Julien<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/15/15 4:48 PM, Thomas Maurel
      wrote:<br>
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      Dear Julien,
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      <div class="">Yes, this is the right place to post this since you
        are querying the Ensembl marts on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="http://ensembl.org" class="">ensembl.org</a> ;-)</div>
      <div class="">There is nothing wrong with your code, I’ve just
        tried your query and got the result in few minutes:</div>
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          <div class="">> library("biomaRt")</div>
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        <div class="">
          <div class="">> ensembl71 <- useMart(host='<a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://apr2013.archive.ensembl.org" class="">apr2013.archive.ensembl.org</a>',
            biomart='ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL',
            dataset='hsapiens_gene_ensembl')</div>
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        <div class="">
          <div class="">> GO <- getBM(attributes=c(‘go_id',
            'name_1006', 'namespace_1003'), mart = ensembl71)</div>
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        <div class="">> head(GO)</div>
        <div class="">       go_id                                  
           name_1006     namespace_1003</div>
        <div class="">1 GO:0007186 G-protein coupled receptor signaling
          pathway biological_process</div>
        <div class="">2 GO:0016021                         integral to
          membrane cellular_component</div>
        <div class="">3 GO:0005886                              plasma
          membrane cellular_component</div>
        <div class="">4 GO:0004930          G-protein coupled receptor
          activity molecular_function</div>
        <div class="">5 GO:0004984                  olfactory receptor
          activity molecular_function</div>
        <div class="">6 GO:0008150                          
          biological_process biological_process</div>
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      <div class=""><br class="">
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      <div class="">It could be that our website our your internet
        connection had a glitch. Could you please try again?</div>
      <div class="">You could also try to update the BiomaRt package to
        the current 2.20 version (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/biomaRt.html"
          class="">http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/biomaRt.html</a>)
        and update your R software version.</div>
      <div class="">It’s also good practice to refrain yourself from
        running full genome queries with BioMart, an easy way around
        this is to us filters to break down your query in smaller pieces
        (e.g: to filter on chromosome names).</div>
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      <div class="">Hope this helps,</div>
      <div class="">Regards,</div>
      <div class="">Thomas</div>
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            <div class="">On 15 Apr 2015, at 15:34, Julien Roux <<a
                moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:julien.roux@unil.ch"
                class="">julien.roux@unil.ch</a>> wrote:</div>
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            <div class="">Hi all,<br class="">
              Not sure this is the right place to post this, please
              redirect me if not.<br class="">
              <br class="">
              I'm having troubles retrieving data with biomaRt (2.18)
              from Ensembl 71<br class="">
              > library("biomaRt")<br class="">
              > ensembl71 <- useMart(host='<a
                moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="http://apr2013.archive.ensembl.org" class="">apr2013.archive.ensembl.org</a>',
              biomart='ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL',
              dataset='hsapiens_gene_ensembl')<br class="">
              > GO <- getBM(attributes=c('go_id', 'name_1006',
              'namespace_1003'), mart = ensembl71)<br class="">
              Error in value[[3L]](cond) :<br class="">
               Request to BioMart web service failed. Verify if you are
              still connected to the internet.  Alternatively the
              BioMart web service is temporarily down.<br class="">
              <br class="">
              However the fwollowing commands work well, so I wonder if
              the service is really down or if there is some other issue<br
                class="">
              > listFilters(ensembl71)<br class="">
              > listAttributes(ensembl71)<br class="">
              <br class="">
              Best<br class="">
              Julien<br class="">
              <br class="">
              -- <br class="">
              Julien Roux<br class="">
              Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow<br class="">
              Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of
              Lausanne, Switzerland<br class="">
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href="http://www.unil.ch/dee/home/menuinst/people/post-docs--associates/dr-julien-roux.html"
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              Tel: +41 78 700 2931<br class="">
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            <div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">--</div>
            <div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Thomas Maurel<br
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              Bioinformatician - Ensembl Production Team<br class="">
              European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)<br class="">
              European Molecular Biology Laboratory<br class="">
              Wellcome Trust Genome Campus<br class="">
              Hinxton<br class="">
              Cambridge CB10 1SD<br class="">
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Julien Roux
Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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