Bioconductor packages failing to install in Galaxy Europe Interactive R (cannot access repository index)

Hello everyone,

I am currently using the Galaxy Europe Interactive R environment for a single-cell RNA-seq analysis workflow, but I am running into a persistent issue when trying to install Bioconductor packages.

Problem

When I try to install packages such as:

  • DropletUtils
  • scDblFinder
  • SingleCellExperiment

the installation fails with repeated errors indicating that R cannot access the Bioconductor repository index.

Error message

cannot open URL ‘https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.20/bioc/src/contrib/PACKAGES