Hi Thomas, For the same reasons that you cannot subset by names a Vector object with no names:
> IRanges(1:4, width=10)[letters[1:4]] Error in normalizeSingleBracketSubscript(i, x) : cannot subset by character when names are NULL you cannot subset an unnamed List object using a named list-like subscript. So in your case, just remove the names on 'keep_ranges' (which are probably not desired anyway) before using it as a subscript: > keep_ranges CompressedIRangesList of length 18 $`1` IRanges of length 1 start end width [1] 20 108 89 $`2` IRanges of length 1 start end width [1] 43 131 89 $`3` IRanges of length 1 start end width [1] 21 105 85 ... <15 more elements> > return_rles[ unname(keep_ranges) ] RleList of length 18 [[1]] logical-Rle of length 89 with 1 run Lengths: 89 Values : TRUE [[2]] logical-Rle of length 89 with 1 run Lengths: 89 Values : TRUE [[3]] logical-Rle of length 85 with 1 run Lengths: 85 Values : TRUE [[4]] logical-Rle of length 85 with 1 run Lengths: 85 Values : TRUE [[5]] logical-Rle of length 102 with 1 run Lengths: 102 Values : TRUE ... <13 more elements> Prior to BioC 2.13, it was possible to subset an unnamed List object by a named list-like subscript, and in that case, the names on the subscript were ignored and the subscript was treated as parallel to the object to subset. However this behavior was somehow dangerous (could lead to subtle issues) and didn't follow the spirit of what subsetting an unnamed Vector by name does. So it's not supported anymore. Sorry for the inconvenience, H. On 10/29/2013 03:05 PM, Thomas Sandmann wrote:
Hi Herve, I have updated to IRanges 1.20.4 now, but unfortunately, I still encounter an error when I try to subset a CompressedRleList or SimpleRleList with a CompressedIRangesList or SimpleIRangesList. Would you mind having a look at where I am going wrong ? (My two example objects are available in the rdata object at the url shown below). con=url("http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/126180/example.rdata") load( con ) return_rles[ keep_ranges ] Error in subsetListByList(x, i) (from List-class.R#205) : cannot subscript an unnamed list-like object by a named list-like object R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] parallel stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods [8] base other attached packages: [1] trimPrimers_1.3.0 Rsamtools_1.14.1 Biostrings_2.30.0 [4] GenomicRanges_1.14.2 XVector_0.2.0 IRanges_1.20.4 [7] BiocGenerics_0.8.0 Defaults_1.1-1 BiocInstaller_1.12.0 [10] roxygen2_2.2.2 digest_0.6.3 devtools_1.3 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] bitops_1.0-6 brew_1.0-6 compiler_3.0.2 evaluate_0.5.1 httr_0.2 [6] memoise_0.1 RCurl_1.95-4.1 stats4_3.0.2 stringr_0.6.2 tools_3.0.2 [11] whisker_0.3-2 zlibbioc_1.8.0
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