[BioC] recourse for errors with GEOquery::getGEO

Brent Pedersen bpederse at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 20:27:14 CEST 2012


Hi, with a call like
> getGEO("GSE15219", destdir="/tmp/", GSEMatrix=TRUE)
I get:
Found 1 file(s)
GSE15219_series_matrix.txt.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  762k  100  762k    0     0   313k      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:--  330k
100  762k  100  762k    0     0   301k      0  0:00:02  0:00:02
--:--:--  301kFile stored at:
/tmp//GPL6255.soft
Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
  no lines available in input


Is there something I can do to get around this error?


> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
[1] C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] GEOquery_2.23.5    Biobase_2.16.0     BiocGenerics_0.2.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] RCurl_1.95-1.1 XML_3.95-0.1
>



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