Issue with session timing out

[AleksZakirov]

Hi! First of all, thank you very much for developing this wonderful tool!

Unfortunately, I have a recurrent issue appearing at random and lasting for prolonged periods of time. Sometimes, when I access the easyGEO page, after submitting a GSE accession number of interest, then selecting the platform and clicking the "Select to proceed" button, I get the following error message:

I tried refreshing the page, clearing cookies, using incognito mode, using a different browser, all without success. This makes me believe the issue has something to do with the server side.

The issue seems to creep up more or less randomly - sometimes everything works fine, and sometimes it keeps throwing this message.

[judithayan]

Hi Aleks,

This is a documented issue with an older version of the GEOquery package, which we are using. A discussion of the issue here: https://support.bioconductor.org/p/9140952/

This version of GEOquery reads the data using readr::read_table(), which relies on vroom. This error occurs when the data exceeds the default buffer size for vroom (131072 b).

We have implemented a fix in the newest online version of easyGEO by increasing the buffer size for larger datasets.

Please let us know if you run into more issues.

Judith