Body: <p>I used </p>
  
  <pre><code>if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
      install.packages("BiocManager")
  BiocManager::install()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>for installing "bioconductor" but I encountered this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error: invalid version specification ‘Bioconductor version cannot be validated; no internet connection?’
  In addition: Warning messages:
  1: In file(con, "r") : InternetOpenUrl failed: 'à¿q'
  2: In file(con, "r") : InternetOpenUrl failed: 'pen the ð¥Xn'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can anybody help me?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Hi and welcome to the site! Please [edit] your question and tell us: i) do you actually have a working internet connection? ii) What operating system are you using? iii) What version of R?
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Comments.Text: Hi. Thanks. 1- yes i have 2-  windows 7 3- 3.6.0 version
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Comments.Text: @Amina what is your local language and your keyboard configuration?. It might be a problem related to it. The command with this error is the install? Have you asked this in support.bioconductor.org (which is the official channel)?
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Comments.Text: @llrs I checked my system and everything was correct. I didn’t ask support.bioconductor. However, thank you for your advise.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Aminafzalifar
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Comments.Text: I don't know what is correct for you, but definitely something is not correct, so please post your language configuration if you want further help. I suspect that part of the problem is from reading a string in a different encoding that the supported or something similar.
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Tags: <bioconductor>
Title: install bioconductor
ThreadText: # install bioconductor
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-06-06)
  
  I used
  
  ```
  if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
      install.packages("BiocManager")
  BiocManager::install()
  
  ```
  
  for installing "bioconductor" but I encountered this error:
  
  ```
  Error: invalid version specification ‘Bioconductor version cannot be validated; no internet connection?’
  In addition: Warning messages:
  1: In file(con, "r") : InternetOpenUrl failed: 'à¿q'
  2: In file(con, "r") : InternetOpenUrl failed: 'pen the ð¥Xn'
  
  ```
  
  Can anybody help me?
  
  **Tags:** bioconductor
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Hi and welcome to the site! Please [edit] your question and tell us: i) do you actually have a working internet connection? ii) What operating system are you using? iii) What version of R?  
  > **username_0**: Hi. Thanks. 1- yes i have 2-  windows 7 3- 3.6.0 version  
  > **username_2**: @Amina what is your local language and your keyboard configuration?. It might be a problem related to it. The command with this error is the install? Have you asked this in support.bioconductor.org (which is the official channel)?  
  > **username_0**: @username_2 I checked my system and everything was correct. I didn’t ask support.bioconductor. However, thank you for your advise.  
  > **username_2**: I don't know what is correct for you, but definitely something is not correct, so please post your language configuration if you want further help. I suspect that part of the problem is from reading a string in a different encoding that the supported or something similar.  
  
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