[BioC] Geoquery problem

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Tue Jul 5 11:37:43 CEST 2011


On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:13 AM, David martin <vilanew at gmail.com> wrote:
> Geeting an error while downloading array data.
>
>
>> gse     <- getGEO("GSE5271", GSEMatrix = TRUE)
> Found 1 file(s)
> GSE5271_series_matrix.txt.gz
>  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
>  Current
>                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
> 100 94360  100 94360    0     0   2289      0  0:00:41  0:00:41 --:--:--
> 19711
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,
>  :
>  scan() expected 'a real', got 'Null'
>
>
> Any idea ?

Hi, David.

NCBI uses many values to mean "data not available" including NULL, NA,
null, and now, "Null".  Should be fixed in devel and release 2.8 and
will be available via biocLite in a day or so.  Thanks for the report.

Sean



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