[BioC] error in estimateVarianceFunctions

Francois Pepin francois.pepin at sequentainc.com
Thu Sep 29 20:35:17 CEST 2011


Hi Dawei,

The error message is pretty clear. You said method=TRUE and it's unhappy with that. A look at the help for that function (?estimateVarianceFunctions) would tell you what arguments are acceptable for the method.

Francois

On Sep 28, 2011, at 10:12 , Dawei Li wrote:

> 
> Dear Simon:
> 
> 
>  The following is my code:
> 
> library("DESeq")
> countsTable<-read.table("mycount.dat", sep = "\t",header=TRUE, stringsAsFactors=TRUE, row.names="gene")
> conds <- factor(c("T","C"))
> cds   <- newCountDataSet( countsTable, conds )
> cds   <- estimateSizeFactors( cds)
> cds   <- estimateVarianceFunctions(cds,method=TRUE)
> 
> I got the following error message:
> 
> Error in match.arg(method) : 'arg' must be NULL or a character vector
> 
> dawei li
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