[BioC] Failed to obtain \'hguid\' cookie for UCSC browser session

[Ania [guest]]

Dear All,
after I have updated my R and Bioconductor, the makeTranscriptDbFromUCSC function from GenomicFeatures package does not work anymore as it gives the following error: "Error in .local(.Object, ...) : Failed to obtain 'hguid' cookie". I'm using Mac version 10.6.8, the software is updated. Here is the R code that led to an error:

>library(GenomicFeatures)
>supportedUCSCtables() ### the tables are listed
>getChromInfoFromUCSC("mm9", goldenPath_url = "http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath") ### the chromosomes and their lengths are listed
> txdb  = makeTranscriptDbFromUCSC(genome="mm9", tablename="refGene")
Error in .local(.Object, ...) : Failed to obtain 'hguid' cookie

Does anyone know the solution to this problem? I would be really grateful for your help.



 -- output of sessionInfo(): 

R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

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

other attached packages:
[1] GenomicFeatures_1.12.2 AnnotationDbi_1.22.6   Biobase_2.20.1        
[4] GenomicRanges_1.12.4   IRanges_1.18.1         BiocGenerics_0.6.0    

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] biomaRt_2.16.0     Biostrings_2.28.0  bitops_1.0-5       BSgenome_1.28.0   
 [5] DBI_0.2-7          RCurl_1.95-4.1     Rsamtools_1.12.3   RSQLite_0.11.4    
 [9] rtracklayer_1.20.2 stats4_3.0.1       tools_3.0.1        XML_3.95-0.2      
[13] zlibbioc_1.6.0    

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