[BioC] import .cel file in Ubuntu system

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hello 郭小波,

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:11 AM, 郭小波 <mc03gxb at 126.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>       I want to import a .cel file into R.  Under the Windows platform, i used the command "read.celfile" in the package "affyio" and successfully imported the data. However, when i turned to used R in Ubuntu and repeated the same steps, there was an error:
>
>  "read.celfile("/home/bmi01/P1/1.CEL") :
>  Is /home/bmi01/P1/1.CEL really a CEL file? tried reading as text, gzipped text, binary and gzipped binary
>  Calls: read.celfile -> .Call"
>
>  What is the problem?

It looks as if that file doesn't "look like" a cel file.

You mentioned that read.celfile previously worked in windows, though.
Did it work for *this* particular cel file that you are now trying to
import under linux, or were you saying that it has just worked before
on some other cel files you might have been using?

-steve

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