Clinical data for CTSP_DLBCL1 does not work

[akauko]

I was trying to access clinical data for the project CTSP-DLBCL1 without success. I suspect a bug.

GDCquery() was functional and resulted 37 hits:

query.1 <- GDCquery(
  project = "CTSP-DLBCL1",
  data.category = "Clinical",
  data.type="Clinical Supplement",
  access= "open"
)

Download worked partially. If I downloaded only one file per project, it created proper directory structure, but if I downloaded all files in the project, then I needed to manually move files to a proper directory.

GDCdownload(query.1)

GDCprepare_clinic() failed. It seems to expect xml. Clinical data in CTSP-DLBCL1 project is in json format.

GDCprepare_clinic(query.1, "patient")

The error:

in read_xml.character(xmlfile) : 
Start tag expected, '<' not found [4]

I tried also GDCquery_clinic(), but it did not work either.

GDCquery_clinic("CTSP-DLBCL1", type="clinical")

The error:

Error in data.frame(..., check.names = FALSE) : 
  arguments imply differing number of rows: 37, 38

Other projects of interests ("CGCI-HTMCP-DLBCL","TCGA-DLBC","CGCI-BLGSP") worked. Their clinical data was in xml format, so this might have something to do with the difference.

I would appreciate any help.

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.3.2 (2023-10-31 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19044)

Matrix products: default

locale:
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[5] LC_TIME=Finnish_Finland.utf8    

time zone: Europe/Helsinki
tzcode source: internal

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