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Problem Using The Cosmic Biomart -> Usemart("Cosmicmart") Produces Error

I'm trying to access the COSMIC biomaRt for the first time. I have accessed Ensembl Genes this way in the past but never COSMIC. When I try to select it as the mart to query I get the following error:

library("biomaRt")
cosmic=useMart("CosmicMart")
Error in read.table(con, sep = "\t", header = FALSE, quote = "", comment.char = "",  :  no lines available in input

Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?

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written by secretjess secretjess

I get the same error from here (Barcelona). It seems an error of the server. You should contact the COSMIC user service, and ask them to check it.

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written by Giovanni M Dall'Olio Giovanni M Dall'Olio

Contacted them, many thanks for trying the code :)

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