[BioC] ArrayExpress package error

Srinivas Iyyer srini_iyyer_bio at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 19 22:02:36 CET 2008


Dear Group,

I have been trying to create rawset using ArrayExpress for the following array dataset. I have error when I ran the following. Any thoughts if error is with the compiled data or functions. thank you. srini
(sessionInfo - given below)
> rawset = ArrayExpress("E-SMDB-3834")
trying URL 'ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/microarray/data/experiment/SMDB/E-SMDB-3834/E-SMDB-3834.raw.zip'
ftp data connection made, file length 202912584 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 193.5 Mb

###............................... (truncated ) (error apeared after this)
Read 60 items
Error in nonAB(i, files, path, ph, rawcol, adr, adf, idf) : 
  3 scanner names are given ( "GenePix" "SMD" "ScanAlyze" ). It is not possible to handle such a case. Try to set the argument 'rawcol' by choosing among the following columns names: 
"GenePix:F532 Mean" 
"GenePix:F635 Mean" 
........... (continued...)

In addition: Warning messages:
1: In download.file(featureannot, adffile, mode = "wb") :
  only first element of 'url' argument used
2: In download.file(featureannot, adffile, mode = "wb") :
  only first element of 'destfile' argument used
Read 61 items
Error in nonAB(i, files, path, ph, rawcol, adr, adf, idf) : 
  3 scanner names are given ( "GenePix" "SMD" "ScanAlyze" ). It is not possible to handle such a case. Try to set the argument 'rawcol' by choosing among the following columns names: 
"GenePix:F532 Mean" 
"GenePix:F635 Mean" 

Read 42 items
Error in function (classes, fdef, mtable)  : 
  unable to find an inherited method for function "experimentData", for signature "list"




> sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) 
i386-pc-mingw32 

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] ArrayExpress_1.2.2 XML_1.98-1         limma_2.16.2       affy_1.20.0        Biobase_2.2.1     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] affyio_1.10.1        preprocessCore_1.4.0



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