[R] you are making it far too difficult

Caitlin Gibbons bioprogr@mmer @ending from gm@il@com
Thu Dec 27 22:30:27 CET 2018


“\t” is an escape sequence which signifies one tab character. “/t” is NOT an escape sequence, and to R, looks like a very brief file path. 

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> On Dec 27, 2018, at 2:09 PM, Spencer Brackett <spbrackett20 using saintjosephhs.com> wrote:
> 
> What is the significance of using / or \ ?
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 4:02 PM Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee using gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 2:03 PM Spencer Brackett
>> <spbrackett20 using saintjosephhs.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thank you for the help! I tried using the read.table command in my
>> RStudio
>>> using the following argument, and managed to open the file.
>>> 
>>> GBM_protein_expression<-read.table(file.choose(), header=TRUE, sep=“/t”)
>> 
>> Note that sep="/t" is NOT the same thing as the sep="\t" you were
>> advised to use.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> However, my data did not unpack as yours did. I again only received a
>> table
>>> of true and flase distinctions per column, and my environment tab says
>> that
>>> there is 0 observations upon 0 variables.
>>> 
>>> I believe I should be getting data similar to what you got, as it would
>>> appear that your’s actually contains relevant gene/protein expression
>> info.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 6:21 AM Federico Calboli <
>>> federico.calboli using kuleuven.be> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Once you have your TSV files just use something as
>>>> 
>>>> x = read.table('protein_expression.tsv', h = T, sep = '\t')
>>>> 
>>>> Do not copy paste the code of this email because it is formatted and
>> would
>>>> not work in R.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Best
>>>> 
>>>> F
>>>> 
>>>> PS the data looks like this to me
>>>> 
>>>> head(x)
>>>>  icgc_donor_id project_code icgc_specimen_id icgc_sample_id
>>>> submitted_sample_id analysis_id        antibody_id gene_name
>>>> 1       DO12370       GBM-US          SP26475       SA131594
>>>> TCGA-19-5960-01A-13-1900-20       97765 14-3-3_epsilon-M-C     YWHAE
>>>> 2       DO12370       GBM-US          SP26475       SA131594
>>>> TCGA-19-5960-01A-13-1900-20       97765         4E-BP1-R-V  EIF4EBP1
>>>> 3       DO12370       GBM-US          SP26475       SA131594
>>>> TCGA-19-5960-01A-13-1900-20       97765    4E-BP1_pS65-R-V  EIF4EBP1
>>>> 4       DO12370       GBM-US          SP26475       SA131594
>>>> TCGA-19-5960-01A-13-1900-20       97765    4E-BP1_pT37-R-V  EIF4EBP1
>>>> 5       DO12370       GBM-US          SP26475       SA131594
>>>> TCGA-19-5960-01A-13-1900-20       97765    4E-BP1_pT70-R-C  EIF4EBP1
>>>> 6       DO12370       GBM-US          SP26475       SA131594
>>>> TCGA-19-5960-01A-13-1900-20       97765          53BP1-R-C   TP53BP1
>>>>  gene_stable_id gene_build_version normalized_expression_level
>>>> verification_status verification_platform
>>>> 1             NA                 NA                  -1.1636330
>>>> not tested                    NA
>>>> 2             NA                 NA                  -1.7969721
>>>> not tested                    NA
>>>> 3             NA                 NA                  -0.7256390
>>>> not tested                    NA
>>>> 4             NA                 NA                   0.6498421
>>>> not tested                    NA
>>>> 5             NA                 NA                  -1.0262844
>>>> not tested                    NA
>>>> 6             NA                 NA                   1.5186400
>>>> not tested                    NA
>>>>                                        platform
>>>> 1 M.D. Anderson Reverse Phase Protein Array Core
>>>> 2 M.D. Anderson Reverse Phase Protein Array Core
>>>> 3 M.D. Anderson Reverse Phase Protein Array Core
>>>> 4 M.D. Anderson Reverse Phase Protein Array Core
>>>> 5 M.D. Anderson Reverse Phase Protein Array Core
>>>> 6 M.D. Anderson Reverse Phase Protein Array Core
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> experimental_protocol
>>>> 1 MDA_RPPA_Core
>>>> 
>> http://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcgafiles/ftp_auth/distro_ftpusers/anonymous/tumor/blca/cgcc/mdanderson.org/mda_rppa_core/protein_exp/mdanderson.org_BLCA.MDA_RPPA_Core.mage-tab.1.7.0/mdanderson.org_BLCA.MDA_RPPA_Core.idf.txt
>>>> 2 MDA_RPPA_Core
>>>> 
>> http://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcgafiles/ftp_auth/distro_ftpusers/anonymous/tumor/blca/cgcc/mdanderson.org/mda_rppa_core/protein_exp/mdanderson.org_BLCA.MDA_RPPA_Core.mage-tab.1.7.0/mdanderson.org_BLCA.MDA_RPPA_Core.idf.txt
>>>> 3 MDA_RPPA_Core
>>>> 
>> http://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcgafiles/ftp_auth/distro_ftpusers/anonymous/tumor/blca/cgcc/mdanderson.org/mda_rppa_core/protein_exp/mdanderson.org_BLCA.MDA_RPPA_Core.mage-tab.1.7.0/mdanderson.org_BLCA.MDA_RPPA_Core.idf.txt
>>>> 4 MDA_RPPA_Core
>>>> 
>> http://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcgafiles/ftp_auth/distro_ftpusers/anonymous/tumor/blca/cgcc/mdanderson.org/mda_rppa_core/protein_exp/mdanderson.org_BLCA.MDA_RPPA_Core.mage-tab.1.7.0/mdanderson.org_BLCA.MDA_RPPA_Core.idf.txt
>>>> 5 MDA_RPPA_Core
>>>> 
>> http://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcgafiles/ftp_auth/distro_ftpusers/anonymous/tumor/blca/cgcc/mdanderson.org/mda_rppa_core/protein_exp/mdanderson.org_BLCA.MDA_RPPA_Core.mage-tab.1.7.0/mdanderson.org_BLCA.MDA_RPPA_Core.idf.txt
>>>> 6 MDA_RPPA_Core
>>>> 
>> http://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcgafiles/ftp_auth/distro_ftpusers/anonymous/tumor/blca/cgcc/mdanderson.org/mda_rppa_core/protein_exp/mdanderson.org_BLCA.MDA_RPPA_Core.mage-tab.1.7.0/mdanderson.org_BLCA.MDA_RPPA_Core.idf.txt
>>>>  raw_data_repository          raw_data_accession
>>>> 1                TCGA TCGA-19-5960-01A-13-1900-20
>>>> 2                TCGA TCGA-19-5960-01A-13-1900-20
>>>> 3                TCGA TCGA-19-5960-01A-13-1900-20
>>>> 4                TCGA TCGA-19-5960-01A-13-1900-20
>>>> 5                TCGA TCGA-19-5960-01A-13-1900-20
>>>> 6                TCGA TCGA-19-5960-01A-13-1900-20
>>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Sarah Goslee (she/her)
>> http://www.numberwright.com
>> 
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