Dear Kristian, please, please provide the output of sessionInfo(). (and, if you haven't yet done so, a complete script of code to reproduce the error from a fresh R session). Best wishes Wolfgang Rhoda Kinsella wrote: > Hi Kristian, > I have been in contact with one of the Biomart developers and he thinks > this displayType is an internal property of the biomaRt bioconductor > package. Steffen, is this something that needs to be modified in the > biomaRt code or is there something missing at the ensembl side that > needs to be added? > Regards, > Rhoda > > > On 12 Aug 2009, at 23:04, Unger, Kristian wrote: > >> Hi there! >> >> When I try to access the >> >> functional genomics database/hsapiens_feature_set by using >> >> ensembl = useMart("functional_genomics") >> >> I get the following error: >> >>> ensembl = useDataset("hsapiens_feature_set",mart=ensembl) >> Checking attributes and filters ...Error in if (!is.null(displayType) >> && xmlGetAttr(xml, "displayType") == : >> missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed >> >> Any ideas what goes wrong here? >> >> Many thanks >> >> Kristian >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > Rhoda Kinsella Ph.D. > Ensembl Bioinformatician, > European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), > Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, > Hinxton > Cambridge CB10 1SD, > UK. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Best wishes Wolfgang ------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Huber EMBL http://www.embl.de/research/units/genome_biology/huber