error beast v2.6.2

Brett Wilson

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Mar 22, 2020, 2:31:32 PM3/22/20

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Hi all,

Trying to get beast to run an xml file produced using BEAUti, but it fails with the following output:

Loading package BEAST v2.6.2
java.lang.NumberFormatException: multiple points
        at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(FloatingDecimal.java:1914)
        at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.parseDouble(FloatingDecimal.java:110)
        at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(Double.java:538)
        at beast.util.XMLParser.getAttributeAsDouble(Unknown Source)
        at beast.util.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at beast.util.XMLParser.parseFile(Unknown Source)
        at beast.app.BeastMCMC.parseArgs(Unknown Source)
        at beast.app.beastapp.BeastMain.main(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
        at beast.app.beastapp.BeastLauncher.run(Unknown Source)
        at beast.app.beastapp.BeastLauncher.main(Unknown Source)

Any ideas on how to solve this?

baptiste elie

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Mar 27, 2020, 1:52:42 PM3/27/20

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Did you use Beauti2 ?

Brett Wilson

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Mar 30, 2020, 1:10:30 PM3/30/20

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I did use BEAUti2, which is why I am so confused that it is failing!

Jimmy A McGuire PhD

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Sep 16, 2021, 2:31:36 PM9/16/21

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I've just started attempting to run Beast again after a bit of a hiatus and I'm getting the exact same error even using a data set that I have run previously. Is this likely to be a Java comparability issue? Was this issue ever resolved?