Hi, I have a simple issue with rtracklayer::import.bw() which I believe can be fixed by a one line edit to the NAMESPACE file.
The error is that url.exists() can't be found, which is part of RCurl. > library(rtracklayer) Loading required package: GenomicRanges Loading required package: stats4 Loading required package: BiocGenerics Loading required package: parallel Attaching package: ‘BiocGenerics’ The following objects are masked from ‘package:parallel’: clusterApply, clusterApplyLB, clusterCall, clusterEvalQ, clusterExport, clusterMap, parApply, parCapply, parLapply, parLapplyLB, parRapply, parSapply, parSapplyLB The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’: IQR, mad, xtabs The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’: anyDuplicated, append, as.data.frame, cbind, colnames, do.call, duplicated, eval, evalq, Filter, Find, get, grep, grepl, intersect, is.unsorted, lapply, lengths, Map, mapply, match, mget, order, paste, pmax, pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int, Position, rank, rbind, Reduce, rownames, sapply, setdiff, sort, table, tapply, union, unique, unsplit, which, which.max, which.min Loading required package: S4Vectors Attaching package: ‘S4Vectors’ The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’: colMeans, colSums, expand.grid, rowMeans, rowSums Loading required package: IRanges Loading required package: GenomeInfoDb Warning messages: 1: package ‘rtracklayer’ was built under R version 3.3.1 2: package ‘GenomicRanges’ was built under R version 3.3.1 3: package ‘BiocGenerics’ was built under R version 3.3.1 4: package ‘S4Vectors’ was built under R version 3.3.1 > library(GenomicRanges) > gr <- GRanges('chr1', IRanges(1, 1e5)) > x <- > import.bw('http://duffel.rail.bio/recount/DRP000366/bw/mean_DRP000366.bw', > selection = gr, as = 'RleList') Error in expandURL(x) : could not find function "url.exists" > options(width = 120) > devtools::session_info() Session info ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- setting value version R version 3.3.0 RC (2016-05-01 r70572) system x86_64, darwin13.4.0 ui AQUA language (EN) collate en_US.UTF-8 tz America/New_York date 2016-07-13 Packages --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- package * version date source Biobase 2.33.0 2016-05-05 Bioconductor BiocGenerics * 0.19.2 2016-07-08 Bioconductor BiocParallel 1.7.4 2016-06-17 Bioconductor Biostrings 2.41.4 2016-06-17 Bioconductor bitops 1.0-6 2013-08-17 CRAN (R 3.3.0) devtools 1.12.0 2016-06-24 CRAN (R 3.3.0) digest 0.6.9 2016-01-08 CRAN (R 3.3.0) GenomeInfoDb * 1.9.1 2016-05-13 Bioconductor GenomicAlignments 1.9.5 2016-07-08 Bioconductor GenomicRanges * 1.25.9 2016-06-26 Bioconductor IRanges * 2.7.11 2016-06-22 Bioconductor lattice 0.20-33 2015-07-14 CRAN (R 3.3.0) Matrix 1.2-6 2016-05-02 CRAN (R 3.3.0) memoise 1.0.0 2016-01-29 CRAN (R 3.3.0) RCurl 1.95-4.8 2016-03-01 CRAN (R 3.3.0) Rsamtools 1.25.0 2016-05-05 Bioconductor rtracklayer * 1.33.9 2016-07-08 Bioconductor S4Vectors * 0.11.9 2016-07-08 Bioconductor SummarizedExperiment 1.3.7 2016-07-08 Bioconductor withr 1.0.2 2016-06-20 CRAN (R 3.3.0) XML 3.98-1.4 2016-03-01 CRAN (R 3.3.0) XVector 0.13.6 2016-07-08 Bioconductor zlibbioc 1.19.0 2016-05-05 Bioconductor > Modifying https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror/rtracklayer/blob/368e32110a4e515e7de27717399e69c193c827cc/NAMESPACE#L31 from: postForm) to postForm, url.exists) Should do it. Alternatively, changing https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror/rtracklayer/blob/368e32110a4e515e7de27717399e69c193c827cc/R/web.R#L69 from if(!url.exists(uri)) to if(!RCurl::url.exists(uri)) should fix this issue. Best, Leo _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel