Hi,

I want to access an archived version of biomart and select the human dataset.

    mart=useMart("ensembl_mart_92",host="http://apr2018.archive.ensembl.org")
works but if I do:

    mart=useMart("ensembl_mart_92",host="http://apr2018.archive.ensembl.org", dataset = "hsapiens_gene_ensembl")
it gives error:

    Error in checkDataset(dataset = dataset, mart = mart) : 
      The given dataset:  hsapiens_gene_ensembl , is not valid.  Correct dataset names can be obtained with the listDatasets() function.

If I look into listDatasets() as suggested I get:

    mart=useMart("ensembl_mart_92",host="http://apr2018.archive.ensembl.org")
    listDatasets(mart)
    [1] dataset     description version    
    <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)

Also tried other suggestions online that didn't work:

    listMarts(archive = TRUE)

    Error in listMarts(archive = TRUE) : 
    The archive = TRUE argument is now defunct.
    Use listEnsemblArchives() to find the URL to directly query an Ensembl archive.


    listEnsemblArchives()
                 name     date                                url version current_release
    1  Ensembl GRCh37 Feb 2014          http://grch37.ensembl.org  GRCh37                
    2      Ensembl 94 Oct 2018 http://oct2018.archive.ensembl.org      94               *
    3      Ensembl 93 Jul 2018 http://jul2018.archive.ensembl.org      93                
    4      Ensembl 92 Apr 2018 http://apr2018.archive.ensembl.org      92                
    5      Ensembl 91 Dec 2017 http://dec2017.archive.ensembl.org      91                
    6      Ensembl 90 Aug 2017 http://aug2017.archive.ensembl.org      90                
    7      Ensembl 89 May 2017 http://may2017.archive.ensembl.org      89                
    8      Ensembl 88 Mar 2017 http://mar2017.archive.ensembl.org      88                
    9      Ensembl 87 Dec 2016 http://dec2016.archive.ensembl.org      87                
    10     Ensembl 86 Oct 2016 http://oct2016.archive.ensembl.org      86                
    11     Ensembl 85 Jul 2016 http://jul2016.archive.ensembl.org      85                
    12     Ensembl 84 Mar 2016 http://mar2016.archive.ensembl.org      84                
    13     Ensembl 83 Dec 2015 http://dec2015.archive.ensembl.org      83                
    14     Ensembl 82 Sep 2015 http://sep2015.archive.ensembl.org      82                
    15     Ensembl 81 Jul 2015 http://jul2015.archive.ensembl.org      81                
    16     Ensembl 80 May 2015 http://may2015.archive.ensembl.org      80                
    17     Ensembl 79 Mar 2015 http://mar2015.archive.ensembl.org      79                
    18     Ensembl 78 Dec 2014 http://dec2014.archive.ensembl.org      78                
    19     Ensembl 77 Oct 2014 http://oct2014.archive.ensembl.org      77                
    20     Ensembl 76 Aug 2014 http://aug2014.archive.ensembl.org      76                
    21     Ensembl 75 Feb 2014 http://feb2014.archive.ensembl.org      75                
    22     Ensembl 74 Dec 2013 http://dec2013.archive.ensembl.org      74                
    23     Ensembl 67 May 2012 http://may2012.archive.ensembl.org      67                
    24     Ensembl 54 May 2009 http://may2009.archive.ensembl.org      54   
    
    mart=useMart("ensembl_mart_92", dataset="hsapiens_gene_ensembl", archive=T)

    rror in listMarts(host = host, path = path, port = port, includeHosts = TRUE,  : 
    The archive = TRUE argument is now defunct.


    mart=useMart("ensembl_mart_92", dataset="hsapiens_gene_ensembl")

    Error in useMart("ensembl_mart_92", dataset = "hsapiens_gene_ensembl") : 
    Incorrect BioMart name, use the listMarts function to see which BioMart databases are available

    listMarts()
                   biomart               version
    1 ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL      Ensembl Genes 94
    2   ENSEMBL_MART_MOUSE      Mouse strains 94
    3     ENSEMBL_MART_SNP  Ensembl Variation 94
    4 ENSEMBL_MART_FUNCGEN Ensembl Regulation 94

I'm walking in circles here...Suggestions??


Try:

    > mart=useMart("ensembl",host="http://apr2018.archive.ensembl.org", dataset = "hsapiens_gene_ensembl")