[BioC] "F is dropped because no value found!" error of read.FCS

Mike wjiang2 at fhcrc.org
Fri Aug 1 00:08:31 CEST 2014


It is a warning, not an error. In this FCS file,  there is one letter 
'F' preceded with spaces at the end of TEXT segment without any value 
pared with.
So it is simply ignored and fcs file is probably parsed ok.

Mike
On 07/30/2014 09:03 AM, John Li wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I'm trying to parse a FCS file from here.
>
> http://www.c2b2.columbia.edu/danapeerlab/html/CYT/data/wanderlust/Bendall%20et%20al%20Cell%20Sample%20A_basal.fcs
>
> I get the following error. But I'm not sure what caused the error.
> Would you please let me know how to correctly parse this file? Thanks.
>
>> f=read.FCS('A_basal.fcs')
> Warning messages:
> 1: In fcs_text_parse(txt, emptyValue = emptyValue) :
>    keyword:
>         F is dropped because no value found!
> 2: In fcs_text_parse(txt, emptyValue = emptyValue) :
>    keyword:
>         F is dropped because no value found!
> 3: In readBin(con = con, what = dattype, n = count, size = size,
> signed = signed,  :
>    'signed = FALSE' is only valid for integers of sizes 1 and 2
>



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