[Bioc-devel] rtracklayer: BigWigFIle on Windows
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 abstract Jim Kent's code, which is based on POSIX-specific things like integer file descriptors. On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
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 BigWig file. In my case the OS is Windows 7 run under a virtual machine on a Mac. In the virtual machine I don't have full support. For example, the code above works when bwFile is a BigWigFile pointing to a BigWig file stored on my local hard drive, but does not work when I query a url; in that case I get a weird error message. However, I have at least one student for which this does not seem to work on Windows. I was unaware of this when I designed a quiz problem involving importing a BigWigFile. I am surprised that it works at all. What is the current state of BigWig file support on Windows? Clearly some of it works on some systems. Best, Kasper