Hi, I am trying to use 'GridR' package for the first time, and I'm running into a strange error from grid.check: > grid.check(gridFun) Error in exists(add) : invalid first argument After playing around in recover mode, I see that this because the variable 'add' created by grid.check is blank: Browse[1]> split[[1]][k] [1] " : " Browse[1]> add [1] "" The problem appears to be that my grid.input.Parameters (shown in full below) has components that look like this: '<anonymous> : <anonymous>' so when it is split by '<anonymous>' I get add that is "", and this gives me an error in 'exists(add)'. I have no real idea what this function is doing, but is there a work around for what ever is going on? My function is quite complicated and calls a lot of local variables which are themselves quite intricate, so I don't really know what other information I can give. Any help is appreciated! > sessionInfo() R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] GridR_0.9.1 codetools_0.2-2 multicore_0.1-3 [4] Rsamtools_1.0.7 Biostrings_2.16.9 GenomicFeatures_1.0.6 [7] GenomicRanges_1.0.7 IRanges_1.6.11 projectManager_1.0 [10] XML_3.1-0 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] Biobase_2.8.0 biomaRt_2.4.0 BSgenome_1.16.5 DBI_0.2-5 [5] RCurl_1.4-3 RSQLite_0.9-2 rtracklayer_1.8.1 tools_2.11.1 Thanks, Elizabeth The full grid.input.Parameters: Browse[1]> grid.input.Parameters [1] " <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?myreadPairedAlignments?\n <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?ScanBamParam?\n <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?scanBamFlag?\n <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?matchBamToNames?\n <anonymous>: no visible binding for global variable ?GRangesList?\n <anonymous>: no visible binding for global variable ?align2GRanges?\n <anonymous>: no visible binding for global variable ?GRangesList?\n <anonymous>: no visible binding for global variable ?align2GRanges?\n <anonymous>: no visible binding for global variable ?align2GRanges?\n <anonymous>: no visible binding for global variable ?align2GRanges?\n <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?values?\n <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?getTxIdsByGene?\n <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?exonsBy?\n <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?endoapply?\n <anonymous>: no visible binding for global variable ?reduce?\n <anonymous> : <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?alignPairs2Tx?\n <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?seqnames?\n <anonymous> : <anonymous> : <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?alignPairs2Tx?\n <anonymous> : <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?alignPairs2Ex?\n <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?seqnames?\n <anonymous> : <anonymous> : <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?alignPairs2Ex?\n <anonymous>: no visible global function definition for ?mclapply?\n <anonymous>: no visible binding for global variable ?.tabulateReads?\n <anonymous>: no visible binding for global variable ?.tabulateReads?\n" -- ------------- Elizabeth Purdom Assistant Professor Department of Statistics UC, Berkeley Office: 433 Evans Hall (510) 642-6154 (office) (510) 642-7892 (fax) Mailing: 367 Evans Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-3860 epurdom at stat.berkeley.edu