[BioC] problems using getGEO

[Sean Davis]

Juan,

Are you able to reproduce the error using:

 gse <- getGEO('GSE94')

If not, then how did you do the download?  Are you on windows?  What version
of GEOquery are you using?

This looks like a character encoding issue.  Make sure that if you do a
download using something like ftp that you specify binary file type.  I
wasn't able to reproduce the error using just getGEO('GSE94') on my Mac.
I'll try to give it a try on a windows machine, assuming that is what you
are using.

Sean


On 2/7/06 2:40 PM, "Juan Rodriguez" <j5rodrig at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to load a gse file that i downloaded already and getting errors.
> Any ideas on what is going wrong?
> -This is my first post to the list, I apologize in advance if I'm sending
> this email to the wrong list.
> 
>> getGEO(filename="GSE94_family.soft")
> Parsing....
> ^PLATFORM = GPL218
> ^SAMPLE = GSM2627
> ^SAMPLE = GSM2628
> Error in make.names(as.character(names), allow_) :
>     invalid multibyte string 29
> In addition: There were 12 warnings (use warnings() to see them)
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