I've never tested it, and reports up until now have been negative. It would
help to know the error message (if any) and characteristics of the systems
that work or don't work. Given that it works in some circumstances, it
sounds like we could make it work more reliably.
Michael
On Thu, Sep 17, 20
Thanks.
While fetching data over the internet is pretty nice, for me there is a big
difference between being able to read local BigWig files and not being able
to read anything at all. Wrt. your answer I am a bit unclear whether you
expect it to work on a machine local file on Windows.
Best,
Kas
I would say that it's unsupported, and surprising that it actually worked
for you. It would require some non-trivial engineering to get it fully
working on Windows. For example, to access data via HTTP, one would need to
implement or integrate an HTTP client based on Windows sockets, as well as
abs
In the man page for trackLayer::BigWigFile it says "These functions do not
work on Windows". Despite this statement, which seems to have been around
for a while, I and several of my students seems to be able to execute
something like
import(bwFile, which = my.gr, as = "Rle")
on Windows on a BigW
