[BioC] Error: formal argument "envir" matched by multiple actual arguments

Martin Morgan mtmorgan at fhcrc.org
Mon May 24 03:36:11 CEST 2010


On 05/23/2010 06:30 PM, Shuying wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I wrote a function using "getSeq" to get DNA sequences from the human reference genome. But I kept having the following sporadic and non-reproducible errors:
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> Error in assign(".Method", method, envir = envir) : 
>   formal argument "envir" matched by multiple actual arguments
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> 
> I searched on line and found Hervé Pagès and Henrik Bengtsson posted some input last year. 
> 
> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e6/devel/09/06/1936.html
> 
> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e6/devel/09/06/1943.html
> 
> But it is still not clear how I can avoid and/or fix this problem and get correct results. 
> 
> May I get some of your feedback? I have attached my code in this email. 

What is the output of sessionInfo()? The hope was that a fix for this
was made in R version 2.11.0.

Martin

> 
> Best wishes, 
> 
> Shuying 
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