biocondutor installation problem

I'm pretty sure your subject should be:

  Help configure R to use web proxy on RHEL4.

You don't have a Bioconductor specific problem (yet).

"Kesavan Asaithambi" <asaithambi at ntu.edu.sg> writes:

source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")

Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) :

        unable to open connection

In addition: Warning message:

unable to connect to 'www.bioconductor.org' on port 80.

Did you try reading the help for download.file?  Start R and then do:

   help(download.file)

+ seth