Geeting an error while downloading array data. > gse <- getGEO("GSE5271", GSEMatrix = TRUE) Found 1 file(s) GSE5271_series_matrix.txt.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 94360 100 94360 0 0 2289 0 0:00:41 0:00:41 --:--:-- 19711 Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : scan() expected 'a real', got 'Null' Any idea ?

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:13 AM, David martin <vilanew at="" gmail.com=""> wrote: > Geeting an error while downloading array data. > > >> gse ? ? <- getGEO("GSE5271", GSEMatrix = TRUE) > Found 1 file(s) > GSE5271_series_matrix.txt.gz > ?% Total ? ?% Received % Xferd ?Average Speed ? Time ? ?Time ? ? Time > ?Current > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dload ?Upload ? Total ? Spent ? ?Left ?Speed > 100 94360 ?100 94360 ? ?0 ? ? 0 ? 2289 ? ? ?0 ?0:00:41 ?0:00:41 --:--:-- > 19711 > Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, > ?: > ?scan() expected 'a real', got 'Null' > > > Any idea ? Hi, David. NCBI uses many values to mean "data not available" including NULL, NA, null, and now, "Null". Should be fixed in devel and release 2.8 and will be available via biocLite in a day or so. Thanks for the report. Sean