By the way, instead of saying only that there were warnings, it would be nice to show some of them. E.g., > z <- readLines(" https://tcga.xenahubs.net/download/TCGA.GBMLGG.sampleMap/HumanMethylation450.gz ") [ Hit control-C or Esc to interrupt, or wait a long time ] There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50) > warnings() Warning messages: 1: In readLines(" https://tcga.xenahubs.net/download/TCGA.GBMLGG.sampleMap/HumanMethylation450.gz") : line 1 appears to contain an embedded nul 2: In readLines(" https://tcga.xenahubs.net/download/TCGA.GBMLGG.sampleMap/HumanMethylation450.gz") : line 4 appears to contain an embedded nul 3: In readLines(" https://tcga.xenahubs.net/download/TCGA.GBMLGG.sampleMap/HumanMethylation450.gz") : line 7 appears to contain an embedded nul
Burt's guess looks right, as the following gives 10 long lines of reasonable-looking data. Remove the 'n=10' to get all of it. z <- readLines(gzcon(url(" https://tcga.xenahubs.net/download/TCGA.GBMLGG.sampleMap/HumanMethylation450.gz")), n=10) Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:37 PM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > These are gzipped files, I assume. So see ?gzfile and associated info > for how to open a gzip connection and read from it. You may also > prefer to search (e.g. at rseek.org) on "read a gzipped file" or > similar for possible alternatives. > > Of course, if they're not gzipped files, then ignore the above. If > they are, your current approach is hopeless. > > > Cheers, > Bert > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:13 PM Spencer Brackett > <spbracket...@saintjosephhs.com> wrote: > > > > Good evening, > > > > I am attempting to load the following Xena dataset > > > https://tcga.xenahubs.net/download/TCGA.GBMLGG.sampleMap/HumanMethylation450.gz > > > > I am trying to unpack the dataset and read it into R as a table, but due > to > > the size of the file, I am having some trouble. The following are the > > commands I have tried thus far. > > > > HumanMethylation450 <- fread(" > > > https://tcga.xenahubs.net/download/TCGA.GBMLGG.sampleMap/HumanMethylation450.gz > > ") > > > > readLines(" > > > https://tcga.xenahubs.net/download/TCGA.GBMLGG.sampleMap/HumanMethylation450.gz > > ") > > > > ###These two above attempts failed with warning messages > > from R### > > > > Methyl <-read.delim(" > > > https://tcga.xenahubs.net/download/TCGA.GBMLGG.sampleMap/HumanMethylation450.gz > > ") > > > > ##This attempt is still processing, but has been doing so > > for quite some time## > > > > Any ideas as to what else I could try? > > > > Best, > > > > Spencer > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.