I am attempting to find miRNA binding sites for several circRNAs. I have already performed DEG analysis with EdgeR and selected the top 10 circRNAs (to start with) to find miRNA binding sites using circRNAprofiler.

I have my projectCirc directory set up with an other directory with circRNAs_001.txt containing my list of 10 circRNAs. My experiments.txt is also completed.

My circRNAs_001.txt file looks like this:

circRNA_ID  chrom   gene    strand  startUpBSE  endDownBSE  coverage
1   chr4:89330815-89340100  chr4    TEVA9   +   89330815    89340100    4

My experiments.txt file looks like this:

    label   fileName    condition
1   C1  circRNAs_001.txt    A

I have the below code to start with. I am using gencode v31.

library(BiocManager)
library(pracma)
library(circRNAprofiler)

setwd("/miRNA/")
initCircRNAprofiler(projectFolderName = "projectCirc", detectionTools = "other")
setwd("miRNA/projectCirc/")
check <- checkProjectFolder()
gtf <- formatGTF(pathToGTF = "gencode.v31.annotation.gtf")
backSplicedJunctions <- getBackSplicedJunctions(gtf)

Running the last line above, I get the error message (I have also used gencode v19 and get the same error):

> backSplicedJunctions <- getBackSplicedJunctions(gtf)
Error: Can't combine `..1$id` <logical> and `..2$id` <character>.
Run `rlang::last_error()` to see where the error occurred.

I ran rlang::last_error() but couldn't make any sense of it

> rlang::last_error()
<error/vctrs_error_incompatible_type>
Can't combine `..1$id` <logical> and `..2$id` <character>.
Backtrace:
 1. circRNAprofiler::getBackSplicedJunctions(gtf)
 4. vctrs::vec_default_ptype2(...)
 5. vctrs::stop_incompatible_type(...)
 6. vctrs:::stop_incompatible(...)
 7. vctrs:::stop_vctrs(...)
Run `rlang::last_trace()` to see the full context.
> rlang::last_trace()
<error/vctrs_error_incompatible_type>
Can't combine `..1$id` <logical> and `..2$id` <character>.
Backtrace:
    █
 1. ├─circRNAprofiler::getBackSplicedJunctions(gtf)
 2. │ └─dplyr::bind_rows(backSplicedJunctions, backSplicedJunctionsTool)
 3. │   └─vctrs::vec_rbind(!!!dots, .names_to = .id)
 4. └─vctrs::vec_default_ptype2(...)
 5.   └─vctrs::stop_incompatible_type(...)
 6.     └─vctrs:::stop_incompatible(...)
 7.       └─vctrs:::stop_vctrs(...)

From what I understand it can't merge because one is a logical vector (True/False) and the other is a character, however looking at the classes of gtf with sapply(gtf, class) none of the columns are logical. I don't know how to check the class types circRNAs_001.txt. Any help will be appreciated!

The sessionInfo()

sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Matrix products: default
BLAS/LAPACK: /apps/intel/Composer/compilers_and_libraries_2020.0.166/linux/mkl/lib/intel64_lin/libmkl_gf_lp64.so

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               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    LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] parallel  stats4    stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] circRNAprofiler_1.0.0                   gwascat_2.18.0                         
 [3] Homo.sapiens_1.3.1                      TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene_3.2.2
 [5] org.Hs.eg.db_3.10.0                     GO.db_3.10.0                           
 [7] OrganismDbi_1.28.0                      GenomicFeatures_1.38.2                 
 [9] GenomicRanges_1.38.0                    GenomeInfoDb_1.22.1                    
[11] AnnotationDbi_1.48.0                    IRanges_2.20.2                         
[13] S4Vectors_0.24.4                        Biobase_2.46.0                         
[15] BiocGenerics_0.32.0                     pracma_2.3.0                           
[17] BiocManager_1.30.10                    

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