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Dear experts,
suddenly I'm encountering an error when trying to visualize/plot a network with the package STRINGdb.
Here's what I ran (based on the package vignette) :
Any hints ?
library(STRINGdb)
data(diff_exp_example1)
head(diff_exp_example1) # as in vignette
string_db <- STRINGdb$new( version="11.0b", species=9606, score_threshold=200, input_directory="")
example1_mapped <- string_db$map( diff_exp_example1, "gene", removeUnmappedRows = TRUE )
example1_mapped$STRING_id[1:5] # mapping was successful
## I get : "9606.ENSP00000362560" "9606.ENSP00000481721" "9606.ENSP00000479355" "9606.ENSP00000369699" "9606.ENSP00000361072"
## try to plot
string_db$plot_network( example1_mapped$STRING_id[1:5] )
## Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) :
## error:1408F119:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad record mac
## For completeness :
sessionInfo( )
## returns
#R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
#Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
#Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19042)
#
#Matrix products: default
#
#locale:
#[1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252 LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252
#[3] LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
#[5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252
#
#attached base packages:
#[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
#
#other attached packages:
#[1] STRINGdb_2.4.2
#
#loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
# [1] igraph_1.2.8 hash_2.2.6.1 Rcpp_1.0.7 magrittr_2.0.1
# [5] bit_4.0.4 rlang_0.4.12 fastmap_1.1.0 blob_1.2.2
# [9] plyr_1.8.6 tools_4.1.2 caTools_1.18.2 png_0.1-7
#[13] plotrix_3.8-2 KernSmooth_2.23-20 DBI_1.1.2 gtools_3.9.2
#[17] bit64_4.0.5 RColorBrewer_1.1-2 vctrs_0.3.8 bitops_1.0-7
#[21] RCurl_1.98-1.5 memoise_2.0.1 cachem_1.0.6 RSQLite_2.2.9
#[25] gsubfn_0.7 compiler_4.1.2 gplots_3.1.1 chron_2.3-56
#[29] sqldf_0.4-11 proto_1.0.0 pkgconfig_2.0.3
Thank's in advance, Wolfgang Raffelsberger
I just realized that there is a more recent version of STRING (it seems the vignette is not up to date), ie 11.5, but I still get a similar "SSL certificate problem" when starting by declaring STRINGdb$new(version="11.5" ...
Dear Wolfgang,
As far as I know we haven't changed anything in our certificate setup. However it is not the first time that some users experience issues with trying to use secure protocol, it's usually curl/OS version dependent and I can't reproduce it. I'll submit a bug fix that adds an ability to connect to STRING server via standard http. This should solve the issue you are experiencing.
I'll write again when the bugfix goes public (should be beginning of next week).
Best, Damian.
Dear Wolfgang,
The bugfix has now been published. If you still can't plot the network in STRINGdb version >= 2.6.1 you can now add parameter
protocol="http"when you create the STRINGdb object:This should fix the issue with the certificates.
Dear Damian, thanks for the reply. Surprisingly 'BiocManager::install("STRINGdb")' always installes the version 2.4,x, although I'm using R 4.1.2. So I downloaded STRINGdb_2.6.1 and installed it manually (see sessionInfo() at end of message.
So I used string_db <- STRINGdb::STRINGdb$new( version="11.5", species=9606, score_threshold=200, input_directory="", protocol="http") and I got an error-message saying : unused argument (protocol = "http") I found "STRINGdb_2.7.1.t.zip" on https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/STRINGdb.html, but again I get "unused argument (protocol = "http")"
Please not that the git address https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/STRINGdb mentioned on https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/STRINGdb.html doesnt work at all.
Thank's in advance; Wolfgang
For completeness: sionInfo() R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19042)
Matrix products: default
locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252 LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252 LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=French_France.1252
attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] Rcpp_1.0.8 plyr_1.8.6 compiler_4.1.2 RColorBrewer_1.1-2 GenomeInfoDb_1.28.4 XVector_0.32.0
[7] bitops_1.0-7 tools_4.1.2 zlibbioc_1.38.0 bit_4.0.4 RSQLite_2.2.9 memoise_2.0.1
[13] pkgconfig_2.0.3 png_0.1-7 rlang_1.0.1 igraph_1.2.11 DBI_1.1.2 cli_3.1.1
[19] parallel_4.1.2 proto_1.0.0 fastmap_1.1.0 GenomeInfoDbData_1.2.6 httr_1.4.2 caTools_1.18.2
[25] Biostrings_2.60.2 S4Vectors_0.30.2 vctrs_0.3.8 gtools_3.9.2 IRanges_2.26.0 stats4_4.1.2
[31] bit64_4.0.5 Biobase_2.52.0 sqldf_0.4-11 R6_2.5.1 plotrix_3.8-2 hash_2.2.6.1
[37] AnnotationDbi_1.54.1 gsubfn_0.7 limma_3.48.3 magrittr_2.0.2 STRINGdb_2.6.1 blob_1.2.2
[43] org.Hs.eg.db_3.13.0 gplots_3.1.1 wrMisc_1.8.1 BiocGenerics_0.38.0 KEGGREST_1.32.0 KernSmooth_2.23-20
[49] RCurl_1.98-1.6 cachem_1.0.6 chron_2.3-56 crayon_1.5.0
Dear Wolfgang,
2.6.1 is the correct version. I just tested it, just to be sure. The argument is working and you can find it in the code, so it has no reason not to. Make sure you are still not using the old version. Something like this should do the job:
I'm guessing you need to update to the newer bioconductor (3.14) to get the 2.6.x version of the app.
This is not a link to click on. It's only used to clone the code from the git repository like this:
"git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/STRINGdb". Unless you want to have your own git repo of STRING to make changes, it is the same as downloading the source.Best regards, Damian.
Dear Damian, great, (after a fresh reboot) all works now without any error-messages.
Wolfgang