[BioC] rtracklayer

James W. MacDonald jmacdon at uw.edu
Mon Jul 1 16:18:20 CEST 2013


Hi Johannes,

 > session <- browserSession("UCSC")
 > sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
[8] base

other attached packages:
  [1] rtracklayer_1.20.2   GenomicRanges_1.12.4 IRanges_1.18.1
  [4] lumi_2.12.0          methylumi_2.6.1      ggplot2_0.9.3.1
  [7] reshape2_1.2.2       scales_0.2.3         Biobase_2.20.0
[10] BiocGenerics_0.6.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
  [1] affy_1.39.0           affyio_1.28.0         annotate_1.38.0
  [4] AnnotationDbi_1.22.6  beanplot_1.1          BiocInstaller_1.10.1
  [7] Biostrings_2.28.0     bitops_1.0-5          BSgenome_1.28.0
[10] colorspace_1.2-2      DBI_0.2-7             dichromat_2.0-0
[13] digest_0.6.3          grid_3.0.0            gtable_0.1.2
[16] illuminaio_0.2.0      KernSmooth_2.23-10    labeling_0.2
[19] lattice_0.20-15       limma_3.16.5          MASS_7.3-26
[22] Matrix_1.0-12         matrixStats_0.8.1     mclust_4.1
[25] mgcv_1.7-24           minfi_1.6.0           multtest_2.16.0
[28] munsell_0.4           nleqslv_2.0           nlme_3.1-109
[31] nor1mix_1.1-4         plyr_1.8              preprocessCore_1.22.0
[34] proto_0.3-10          RColorBrewer_1.0-5    RCurl_1.95-4.1
[37] reshape_0.8.4         R.methodsS3_1.4.2     Rsamtools_1.12.3
[40] RSQLite_0.11.4        siggenes_1.34.0       splines_3.0.0
[43] stats4_3.0.0          stringr_0.6.2         survival_2.37-4
[46] tools_3.0.0           XML_3.98-1.1          xtable_1.7-1
[49] zlibbioc_1.6.0
 >


But I am in the US, so not redirected to the new mirror. Perhaps that is 
the problem?

Best,

Jim



On 7/1/2013 9:23 AM, Johannes Waage wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> library("rtracklayer")
> session<- browserSession("UCSC")
>
> fails with
> Error in .local(.Object, ...) : Failed to obtain 'hguid' cookie
>
> under both R 2.15.x and 3.0.1
>
> Can anyone reproduce this? Could UCSC have changed their output? I'm in
> Copenhagen and noticed the web-page now automatically redirects to the new
> european mirror.
>
> All the best,
>
>
>
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