[Bioc-devel] Openssl is not available in netConnectHttps for importing remote BigWig files

[Leonardo Collado Torres]

Hi Bioc-devel,

recount had been failing in recent months at bioc-release and
bioc-devel. I finally had the time to dive into it, and eventually
that led to an error on rtracklayer that I reported at
https://github.com/lawremi/rtracklayer/issues/83. Michael Lawrence
noticed that my R session information didn't show openssl being
loaded. In a message there, Michael speculated that maybe a change in
how the rtracklayer binaries were being built by Bioconductor could be
the source of the issue.

Here's a small reprex for the error:

library("GenomicRanges")
library("rtracklayer")
range <- GRanges(seqnames = "chrY", ranges = IRanges(1, 57227415))
rtracklayer::import("http://sciserver.org/public-data/recount2/data/SRP002001/bw/mean_SRP002001.bw",
selection = reduce(range), as = "RleList")

And here's the error output:

Error in seqinfo(con) : UCSC library operation failed
In addition: Warning message:
In seqinfo(con) :
  No openssl available in netConnectHttps for sciserver.org : 443
> traceback()
7: seqinfo(con)
6: seqinfo(con)
5: .local(con, format, text, ...)
4: import(FileForFormat(con), ...)
3: import(FileForFormat(con), ...)
2: rtracklayer::import("http://sciserver.org/public-data/recount2/data/SRP002001/bw/mean_SRP002001.bw",
       selection = reduce(range), as = "RleList")
1: rtracklayer::import("http://sciserver.org/public-data/recount2/data/SRP002001/bw/mean_SRP002001.bw",
       selection = reduce(range), as = "RleList")
> packageVersion("rtracklayer")
[1] ‘1.58.0’


I'm not sure what else I can do to help. As noted at
https://github.com/lawremi/rtracklayer/issues/83#issuecomment-1437585161,
recount / rtracklayer versions from BioC 3.11 do work with the same
links.

Thanks in advance.

Best,
Leo


Leonardo Collado Torres, Ph. D.
Investigator

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