An older error from rtracklayer has resurfaced. When calling a browserSession, it gives the error below. I assume this is due to a URL problem, possibly when trying to connect to UCSC from Europe. Could someone please have a look? Thank you!

> library(rtracklayer)
> browserSession()
Error in .local(.Object, ...) : Failed to obtain 'hguid' cookie
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Ventura 13.6

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-x86_64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib 
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-x86_64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.11.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

time zone: Europe/Berlin
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats4    stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] rtracklayer_1.60.1   GenomicRanges_1.52.1 GenomeInfoDb_1.36.4  IRanges_2.34.1       S4Vectors_0.38.2    
[6] BiocGenerics_0.46.0 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] crayon_1.5.2                DelayedArray_0.26.7         SummarizedExperiment_1.30.2 GenomicAlignments_1.36.0   
 [5] rjson_0.2.21                RCurl_1.98-1.12             Biostrings_2.68.1           XML_3.99-0.14              
 [9] MatrixGenerics_1.12.3       Biobase_2.60.0              grid_4.3.1                  restfulr_0.0.15            
[13] abind_1.4-5                 bitops_1.0-7                yaml_2.3.7                  compiler_4.3.1             
[17] codetools_0.2-19            XVector_0.40.0              BiocParallel_1.34.2         lattice_0.21-9             
[21] BiocIO_1.10.0               parallel_4.3.1              GenomeInfoDbData_1.2.10     Matrix_1.6-1.1             
[25] tools_4.3.1                 matrixStats_1.0.0           Rsamtools_2.16.0            zlibbioc_1.46.0            
[29] S4Arrays_1.0.6

Hi Anna,

This is a known issue (see https://github.com/lawremi/rtracklayer/issues/95), and it's been corrected in BioC 3.18. Unfortunately BioC 3.17 was frozen a couple of weeks ago in preparation for the 3.18 release (which will happen this week), so we won't be able to apply the fix in 3.17.

See https://github.com/lawremi/rtracklayer/issues/95#issuecomment-1773454982 for the details of how to get the fix in 3.18. To upgrade your installation to 3.18, just run BiocManager::install(version="devel"). This might take a while...

Best,

H.