Post the URL from which you are downloading them.

Depending on the format, level, etc. the data can be totally different from
what Bioconductor would expect.


On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Paul Geeleher <paulgeeleher@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I downloaded some glioblastoma hg-u133a CEL files from The Cancer
> Genome Atlas (http://cancergenome.nih.gov/) and ReadAffy() can't seem
> to load the files. The CEL files are only 5.3 megs each so maybe they
> are compressed or something? And when you open them they look like
> binary files?
>
> I'm wondering if anybody knows what kind of files these are and how I
> might read them? ReadAffy() gives the following error:
>
> > a <- ReadAffy()
> Error in value[[3L]](cond) :
>  row.names should specify one of the variables
>  AnnotatedDataFrame 'initialize' could not update varMetadata:
>  perhaps pData and varMetadata are inconsistent?
>
>
> --
> Paul Geeleher
> School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics
> National University of Ireland
> Galway
> Ireland
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