In the man page for trackLayer::BigWigFile it says "These functions do not work on Windows". Despite this statement, which seems to have been around for a while, I and several of my students seems to be able to execute something like import(bwFile, which = my.gr, as = "Rle") on Windows on a BigWig file. In my case the OS is Windows 7 run under a virtual machine on a Mac. In the virtual machine I don't have full support. For example, the code above works when bwFile is a BigWigFile pointing to a BigWig file stored on my local hard drive, but does not work when I query a url; in that case I get a weird error message. However, I have at least one student for which this does not seem to work on Windows.
I was unaware of this when I designed a quiz problem involving importing a BigWigFile. I am surprised that it works at all. What is the current state of BigWig file support on Windows? Clearly some of it works on some systems. Best, Kasper [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel