Greetings, I came across a couple issues when working with the most recent version of GenomicFeatures (Bioconductor 3.5/Github).
1) The "Resource URL" metadata field is only set via some of the helper functions (e.g. makeTxDbFromBiomart), but not others. Since it is required by makeTxDbPackage, the function will fail if passed a txdb constructed using something like makeTxDbFromGFF: Error in makeTxDbPackage(txdb, version = settings$db_version, maintainer = settings$maintainer, : values for symbols SOURCEURL are not single strings Should be easy to fix by modifying the other makeTxDbFromXX functions to specify the Resource URL. 2) The final expression in the function (saveDb(txdb, file=db_path)) fails sometimes because the output directory "PKG/inst/extdata" may not exist. Adding a call to `dir.create()` shortly before this function call fixes the issue. Cheers, Keith --- > sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2017-01-08 r71936) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) Running under: Arch Linux 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 stats4 stats graphics grDevices utils datasets [8] methods base other attached packages: [1] GenomicFeatures_1.27.6 AnnotationDbi_1.37.2 Biobase_2.35.0 [4] rtracklayer_1.35.5 GenomicRanges_1.27.22 GenomeInfoDb_1.11.8 [7] IRanges_2.9.18 S4Vectors_0.13.13 BiocGenerics_0.21.3 [10] yaml_2.1.14 colorout_1.1-2 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] Rcpp_0.12.9 XVector_0.15.2 [3] zlibbioc_1.21.0 GenomicAlignments_1.11.9 [5] BiocParallel_1.9.5 lattice_0.20-34 [7] tools_3.4.0 SummarizedExperiment_1.5.4 [9] grid_3.4.0 DBI_0.5-1 [11] digest_0.6.12 Matrix_1.2-7.1 [13] bitops_1.0-6 biomaRt_2.31.4 [15] RCurl_1.95-4.8 memoise_1.0.0 [17] RSQLite_1.1-2 compiler_3.4.0 [19] Biostrings_2.43.4 Rsamtools_1.27.12 [21] XML_3.98-1.5 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel