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Weiyin, 'source' expects an R file to read in, 1.txt is probably not that! Are you hoping to visit the page from within R? Then perhaps browseURL(<url>) Martin "Weiyin Zhou" <weiyin.zhou at="" exonhit-usa.com=""> writes: > Hi All, > > > > I try to use R to access this link : > http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi- bin/hgTracks?db=hg17&hgt.customText=http://po > rtal.splicearray.com:80/PortalGeneDetails/BrowserFiles/1.txt > > > > My code is : > > > >> > source("http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi- bin/hgTracks?db=hg17&hgt.customText=h > ttp://portal.splicearray.com:80/PortalGeneDetails/BrowserFiles/1.txt "); > > > > Here is the error message I got: > > > > Error in parse(file, n = -1, NULL, "?") : syntax error at > > 2: > > < > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > My sessionInfo is : > > > >> sessionInfo() > > R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03) > > i386-pc-mingw32 > > > > locale: > > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United > States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > > > attached base packages: > > [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" > "datasets" > > [7] "base" > > > > other attached packages: > > statmod limma > > "1.2.4" "2.9.1" > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Weiyin > > > > Senior Research Associate > > ExonHit Therapeutics, Inc. > > 217 Perry Parkway, Building # 5 > > Gaithersburg, MD 20877 > > > > email: Weiyin.zhou at exonhit-usa.com > > phone: 240.404.0184 > > fax: 240.683.7060 > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor -- Martin Morgan Bioconductor / Computational Biology http://bioconductor.org

"Weiyin Zhou" <weiyin.zhou at="" exonhit-usa.com=""> writes: > I try to use R to access this link : > http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi- bin/hgTracks?db=hg17&hgt.customText=http://po > rtal.splicearray.com:80/PortalGeneDetails/BrowserFiles/1.txt > > > > My code is : > >> > source("http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi- bin/hgTracks?db=hg17&hgt.customText=h > ttp://portal.splicearray.com:80/PortalGeneDetails/BrowserFiles/1.txt "); What does "access" mean in this case? Do you expect that page to contain valid R code? That is what the source function is intended for. The error message you received indicates that the web page does not contain valid R code. Perhaps you want url()? readLines? + seth -- Seth Falcon | Computational Biology | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://bioconductor.org