It's not documented by ?loadDb, but providing an absolute path doesn't work, and shows an unusual error message.
> genes17 <- loadDb("/nb/dario/genes/gencode17.db") Error in loadDb(file, dbType, dbPackage, ...) : error in evaluating the argument 'dbType' in selecting a method for function 'loadDb': Error: argument "dbType" is missing, with no default # Help file says this is optional. > genes17 <- loadDb("gencode17.db") > AnnotationDbi_1.22.6 -------------------------------------- Dario Strbenac PhD Student University of Sydney Camperdown NSW 2050 Australia _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel