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Hi Alex, Alex Tsoi wrote: > Dear all, > > I am struggling to input .gpr by using the " read.maimages " command in the > linux machine > > The try2.gpr file has the column names: > > Block Column Row Name ID X Y Dia. F635 Median > F635 Mean F635 SD B635 Median B635 Mean B635 SD % > > B635+1SD % > B635+2SD F635 % Sat. F532 Median F532 Mean F532 > SD B532 Median B532 Mean B532 SD % > B532+1SD % > B532+2SD > F532 % Sat. Ratio of Medians (635/532) Ratio of Means (635/532) > Median of Ratios (635/532) Mean of Ratios (635/532) Ratios SD > (635/532) Rgn Ratio (635/532) Rgn R? (635/532) F Pixels B ^ the culprit (I guess) > Pixels Sum of Medians Sum of Means Log Ratio (635/532) F635 > Median - B635 F532 Median - B532 F635 Mean - B635 F532 Mean - > B532 F635 Total Intensity F532 Total Intensity SNR 635 SNR > 532 Flags Normalize > > > and when I read it by using: > >> mraw <- read.maimages("try2.gpr", columns=list(R = "F635 Median", G="F532 > Median", Rb="B635 Median", Gb="B532 Median"), > annotation=c("Block","Row","Column","ID","Name")) > > I get the error messages: > > Error in readGenericHeader(fullname, columns = columns, sep = sep) : > Specified column headings not found in file > In addition: Warning message: > input string 1 is invalid in this locale in: grep(pattern, x, ignore.case, > extended,value, fixed, useBytes) > > > So, I try to use the same command in my PC, and it can successfully read the > try2.gpr file. Both my PC and the linux machine are using the same R and > Bioconductor version. Which are? Please provide the output of sessionInfo() when you report a problem. sessionInfo() will probably indicate a different LC_CTYPE (i.e. a different charset) on Linux and your "PC" (I guess you mean Windows here). Also sessionInfo() would tell us which version of limma you are using. Are you sure it's recent enough? Maybe this problem has been fixed in more recent versions. You're probably using a multibyte charset on your Linux box (which distro are you using?), like e.g. UTF8, but the file that you are trying to read contains char codes that are invalid in your charset. You can try to replace field "Rgn R? (635/532)" by e.g. "Rgn R^2 (635/532)" in the file or update limma and see if this solves the problem. Cheers, H. > > Does anyone know what's the problem here ? I greatly appreciate for any > suggestion. > > > Thanks, > Alex - > > Medical University of South Carolina > > [[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