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  • chongm
    Member
    • Sep 2012
    • 21

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    Picard Collect Insert Size Java Problem

    Hi Everyone:

    I was trying to generate histograms for insert size using Picard's "CollectInsertSizeMetrics" but came across an error.


    I ran the following code:

    java -Xmx4g -Djava.io.tmpdir=${data}/${i}/tmp \
    -jar $CollectInsertSizeMetrics \
    INPUT=${i}.duplicates.bam \
    OUTPUT=${i}.duplicates.insertsize.metrics \
    METRIC_ACCUMULATION_LEVEL=ALL_READS \
    HISTOGRAM_WIDTH=10 \
    HISTOGRAM_FILE=${i}.duplicates.insertsize.histogram
    done

    Which gave me this error message:

    ####### ERROR IN MAKING THE HISTOGRAMS
    FAQ: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...itle=Main_Page
    Exception in thread "main" net.sf.picard.PicardException: Unexpected exception creating R script file
    at net.sf.picard.util.RExecutor.writeScriptFile(RExecutor.java:92)
    at net.sf.picard.util.RExecutor.executeFromClasspath(RExecutor.java:54)
    at net.sf.picard.analysis.CollectInsertSizeMetrics.finish(CollectInsertSizeMetrics.java:139)
    at net.sf.picard.analysis.SinglePassSamProgram.makeItSo(SinglePassSamProgram.java:138)
    at net.sf.picard.analysis.SinglePassSamProgram.doWork(SinglePassSamProgram.java:55)
    at net.sf.picard.cmdline.CommandLineProgram.instanceMain(CommandLineProgram.java:177)
    at net.sf.picard.cmdline.CommandLineProgram.instanceMainWithExit(CommandLineProgram.java:119)
    at net.sf.picard.analysis.CollectInsertSizeMetrics.main(CollectInsertSizeMetrics.java:82)
    Caused by: java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
    at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
    at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.File.createTempFile(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.File.createTempFile(Unknown Source)
    at net.sf.picard.util.RExecutor.writeScriptFile(RExecutor.java:87)
    ... 7 more

    Any help would be appreciated

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