Tximport issue with new R version

[alexandregmartini]

I use the package called Tximport for long time to generate the tables I use for RNA-Seq. The code is quite simple. Here it is:

gene_id_import <- read.delim("gene_id_import.txt") # This is the file with the transcripts version and their respective gene names.
library(tximport)
filepath = "C:/ad4gy/MM"
files<- sapply(list.dirs(path = filepath, recursive = FALSE)[grep("_quant2TRIMbias",list.dirs(path = filepath, recursive = FALSE))],function(x) paste0(x,"/quant.sf"))# This command searchs for the quant.sf files inside each folder
#Tximport with length scaled TPM values as output (scaled up to library size and average transcript length over samples)
txi<- tximport(files= files, type= "salmon", tx2gene = gene_id_import, countsFromAbundance = "lengthScaledTPM")# When I run this line, now it’s giving the error:

reading in files with read_tsv
Error in parse_con(txt, bigint_as_char) :
lexical error: invalid bytes in UTF8 string.
"seqBias": [], "": "–gcBias", "auxDir": "aux_in
(right here) ------^

#save your output file typing:
write.table(txi, file = "counts.txt", quote = TRUE, sep = "\t")

I have no idea about this error or how to correct it. Besides, it’s in the last line of the code. I noticed the mistake started after I upgrade to R4.0.3
Do you any idea how to fix it?
I appreciate all the help?
Regards,

[mikelove]

I just saw this on the support site:

https://support.bioconductor.org/p/p134400/

To keep information in one place, could you post your sessionInfo there, and we can continue to debug?

[alexandregmartini]

Thanks for the reply. Sure, I will do that