DGEList error ?
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@bjorn-12199
Last seen 5.5 years ago
CH

I imported a data as follows which has first column as genes name and other 21 columns for samples with respective counts for genes using >d=read.csv("path/xyz.csv", as.is=T)

THEN, define group using c function

>group=c("control", "test", "n")

>library(edgeR)

>dge=DGEList(d,group=group,remove.zeros=TRUE)

At this step, I get an error message as follows

"Error in .isAllZero(counts) : 
  count matrix must be integer or double-precision"

What is the problem as how to solve it ?

 

 

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@james-w-macdonald-5106
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You read your data in using read.csv, which returns a data.frame with the first column being gene names. This is neither a matrix, nor does it contain (only) read counts. If you look at the help for DGEList, it specifically says the 'counts' object should be a matrix of read counts.
 

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It is better to provide answer rather than just to comment. Now I am getting another error "Error in colSums(counts): "x" must be numeric"

@James W. MacDonald

 

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I would disagree. You might want me to just answer your questions, but that is only better in a very narrow sense. The errors you are getting are completely self-explanatory, if you were to just read and think. Which is what I am trying to get you to do.

You have now got two(!) errors saying essentially the same thing - that your data need to be numeric. And instead of, like, checking to see if your data are numeric, you post a question here.

You will never get anywhere with R, nor Bioconductor if you aren't able to self-diagnose simple problems. So I will help by pointing out the obvious. R is telling you that the data - which the help page for DGEList clearly states should be a matrix of counts - are not numeric. Why is that? Did you look at the data? Are there columns that contain non-numeric values? Which ones? Did you read the help for read.csv? Do you know how to subset matrices (have you read 'An Introduction to R')?

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Definitely, in this era, everyone google or try to find answer oneself. I did check the data by different ways

I saved the file as tab delimited format (txt) and run command

> sapply(file.txt, class)
        X    B2_015    B2_016    B2_017   B2F_015   B2F_016   B2F_017    B3_003
 "factor" "integer" "integer" "integer" "integer" "integer" "integer" "integer"
   B3_009    B3_010   B3F_003   B3F_009   B3F_010     C_005     C_008     C_012
"integer" "integer" "integer" "integer" "integer" "integer" "integer" "integer"
 

The first column "X" is gene names.

Unfortunately, I am neither statistician nor bioinformatician.

Thanks

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@yusheng_tan-15199
Last seen 6.7 years ago

Hi, you could try to read.csv all the tables needed in the DGEList command using a row.name = 1 after the file's name. Hope to help.

YT

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