[BioC] error with accessing biomaRt attributes

Kishor Tappita kishor.tappita at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 09:47:07 CEST 2009


Dear List,

I get the below error while trying to access biomaRt attributes.


> getBM(attributes = c("entrezgene"),values = c("202763_at","209310_s_at"),mart =ensembl)
Error in getBM(attributes = c("entrezgene"), values = c("202763_at",
"209310_s_at"),  :
The query to the BioMart webservice returned an invalid result:
biomaRt expected a character string of length 1. Please report this to
the mailing list.


> sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
 [1] RCurl_0.98-1        bitops_1.0-4.1      gene2pathway_1.2.0
org.Dm.eg.db_2.2.11 RBGL_1.20.0         graph_1.22.2
KEGGSOAP_1.18.0
 [8] biomaRt_2.0.0       KEGG.db_2.2.11      RSQLite_0.7-2
DBI_0.2-4           AnnotationDbi_1.6.1 Biobase_2.4.1
kernlab_0.9-8

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] SSOAP_0.4-6 tools_2.9.2 XML_2.5-1

Thanks,
Kishor



More information about the Bioconductor mailing list