David Rossell <david.rossell at="" irbbarcelona.org=""> writes: > Hi, I'm using ShortRead package version 1.0.7 on R 2.8.0. > > I have three binary map files produced by MAQ that I want to read into > Bioconductor. I can read one file at a time with the function ReadAligned, > by typing > > aln <- readAligned(dir,"S1.map",type="MAQMap") > > This works like a charm. However, I cannot read all files in the directory > >> aln <- readAligned(dirPath=dir,type="MAQMap") > Error: UserArgumentMismatch > 'dirPath', 'pattern' must be 'character(1)' > > I tried specifying the pattern argument but the function still doesn't work. > >> aln <- readAligned(dirPath=dir,pattern="S.*",type="MAQMap") > Error: UserArgumentMismatch > 'dirPath', 'pattern' must be 'character(1)' > > Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? Any ideas/help are most > welcome. neither, it's a design inconsistency that should be smoothed out -- the MAQ binary files are read in one at a time; you can use 'append' on the results to combine them. aln <- append(readAligned(dirPath, "s_1.map", type="MAQMap"), readAligned(dirPath, "s_2.map", type="MAQMap")) For these whole-lane files a more typical work flow is to process one lane (e.g., filter + coverage) into a much smaller data structure, and then perhaps collate the results. Along the lines of doALane <- function(dirPath, fileName) { # read and process a lane } dataDir <- "/some/path" runs <- lapply(list.files(dataDir), doALane, dirPath=dataPath) # combine elements of run as necessary Hope that helps, Martin > David > > [[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 Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 Location: Arnold Building M2 B169 Phone: (206) 667-2793

Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at="" fhcrc.org=""> writes: > David Rossell <david.rossell at="" irbbarcelona.org=""> writes: > >> Hi, I'm using ShortRead package version 1.0.7 on R 2.8.0. >> >> I have three binary map files produced by MAQ that I want to read into >> Bioconductor. I can read one file at a time with the function ReadAligned, >> by typing >> >> aln <- readAligned(dir,"S1.map",type="MAQMap") >> >> This works like a charm. However, I cannot read all files in the directory >> >>> aln <- readAligned(dirPath=dir,type="MAQMap") >> Error: UserArgumentMismatch >> 'dirPath', 'pattern' must be 'character(1)' >> >> I tried specifying the pattern argument but the function still doesn't work. >> >>> aln <- readAligned(dirPath=dir,pattern="S.*",type="MAQMap") >> Error: UserArgumentMismatch >> 'dirPath', 'pattern' must be 'character(1)' >> >> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? Any ideas/help are most >> welcome. > > neither, it's a design inconsistency that should be smoothed out -- > the MAQ binary files are read in one at a time; you can use 'append' > on the results to combine them. > > aln <- append(readAligned(dirPath, "s_1.map", type="MAQMap"), > readAligned(dirPath, "s_2.map", type="MAQMap")) sorry, this advice assumes the development version of ShortRead; append is not available in the release version, which is what you are using. > For these whole-lane files a more typical work flow is to process one > lane (e.g., filter + coverage) into a much smaller data structure, and > then perhaps collate the results. Along the lines of > > doALane <- function(dirPath, fileName) > { > # read and process a lane > } > dataDir <- "/some/path" > runs <- lapply(list.files(dataDir), doALane, dirPath=dataPath) > # combine elements of run as necessary > > Hope that helps, > > Martin > >> David >> >> [[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 Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 Location: Arnold Building M2 B169 Phone: (206) 667-2793