[BioC] Error using getMeans function in Ringo/Starr

[Noah Dowell]

Dear Benedikt,

Converting to class "character" fixed the error.  The plot looks great.  Thank you for your help and for developing this excellent package!

Best,

Noah

(I am posting to the list in case anyone is following along and can piece together that past couple emails.)


On May 10, 2010, at 2:00 AM, <zacher at lmb.uni-muenchen.de> <zacher at lmb.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:

> 
> Dear Noah,
> 
> I think the problem could be that the chr and the name column are of class factor:
> 
>> class(transcriptAnno$chr)
> [1] "factor"
>> class(transcriptAnno$name)
> [1] "factor"
> 
> Please convert it to class "character":
> 
>> transcriptAnno$chr = as.character(transcriptAnno$chr)
>> class(transcriptAnno$chr)
> [1] "character"
> 
> Please tell me if it works, that I can include a check into the function.
> Regards,
> 
> Benedikt
> 
> 
> Noah Dowell <noahd at ucla.edu> schrieb :
> 
>> Dear Benedikt,
>> 
>> Thank you for looking into this for me.  I have attached the transcriptAnno
>> object I am using as a RData file.  I created this file originally using bioMart
>> and it works with the getProfiles function in Ringo/Starr.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Noah
> 
>