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[Bioc-devel] Cannot interact with a BigWig file on the web with rtracklayer (Windows specific)

Ahhhh!!! Thanks!

I forgot to check those help pages. The error messages didn't lead me
there, but I should have checked again regardless. Anyhow, maybe it
would be useful to check the OS in those functions and prompt a
warning or error that is more informative.

In my case, I added a warning in the functions that end up interacting
with BigWig files. For example:

if(.Platform$OS.type == 'windows') {
    warning('As of rtracklayer 1.25.16, BigWig is not supported on
Windows. Thus loading data from BigWig files will most likely fail!')
}


As for Dan's linux, I don't know what is the solution in that case.


In the end, I made a data package with the BigWig files (only chr21
which I use in the examples) so users without internet connection can
still run the code in the vignettes of the packages I'm developing.
Those vignettes still show how you could get the data from the web if
you wanted. I also added the processed data in .RData files in the
data package, so Windows users could follow the examples.

Cheers,
Leo
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Valerie Obenchain <vobencha at fhcrc.org> wrote: