[BioC] bioMart error when accessing database

Wolfgang Huber whuber at embl.de
Tue Aug 18 21:48:50 CEST 2009


Dear Kristian,

please, please provide the output of sessionInfo().

(and, if you haven't yet done so, a complete script of code to reproduce 
the error from a fresh R session).

	Best wishes
	Wolfgang



Rhoda Kinsella wrote:
> Hi Kristian,
> I have been in contact with one of the Biomart developers and he thinks 
> this displayType is an internal property of the biomaRt bioconductor 
> package. Steffen, is this something that needs to be modified in the 
> biomaRt code or is there something missing at the ensembl side that 
> needs to be added?
> Regards,
> Rhoda
> 
> 
> On 12 Aug 2009, at 23:04, Unger, Kristian wrote:
> 
>> Hi there!
>>
>> When I try to access the
>>
>> functional genomics database/hsapiens_feature_set by using
>>
>> ensembl = useMart("functional_genomics")
>>
>> I get the following error:
>>
>>> ensembl = useDataset("hsapiens_feature_set",mart=ensembl)
>> Checking attributes and filters ...Error in if (!is.null(displayType) 
>> && xmlGetAttr(xml, "displayType") ==  :
>>  missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
>>
>> Any ideas what goes wrong here?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Kristian
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> 
> Rhoda Kinsella Ph.D.
> Ensembl Bioinformatician,
> European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI),
> Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,
> Hinxton
> Cambridge CB10 1SD,
> UK.
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Best wishes
      Wolfgang

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