Are you missing .ctab files issue

[zoe-elizz]

Hello, I'm having an issue getting my .ctab files into R. My .ctab files were generated from Stringtie by specifying a ballgown readable output (-B). I have a similar directory structure to the example provided where I have set my working directory to my "RNA_seq2021" folder in R and in here I have my root folder "Bees", within which I have subfolders for each of my samples (VB_B1, VB_B2, VB_V3,...VB_B29) and in these subfolders are my 5 .ctab files. Below is the code I have run:

VB_sample<c('VB_B1','VB_B2','VB_B3','VB_B4','VB_B5','VB_B6','VB_B7','VB_B8','VB_B9','VB_B10','VB_B11','VB_B12','VB_B13','VB_B15','VB_B16','VB_B17','VB_B18','VB_B20','VB_B21','VB_B22','VB_B23','VB_B24','VB_B25','VB_B26','VB_B27','VB_B28','VB_B29')
VB_dir<-paste0('~/Bees/', VB_sample)
bee_bg2<-ballgown(samples=VB_dir, meas='all')
But I keep getting this error:
Error in ballgown(samples = VB_dir, meas = "all") :
Something is wrong: are you missing .ctab files? Do extra files/folders (other than tablemaker output folders) match your samples/dataDir/samplePattern argument(s)?

I have also tried running:

bee_bg<-ballgown(dataDir='~/Bees', samplePattern='VB_B', meas='all')
but get this error:
Tue Apr 19 09:24:15 2022: Reading linking tables
Error in file(file, "rt") : invalid 'description' argument

Any suggestions on what is wrong?? This appears to be a common error that people get and I have combed through logged issues on bioconductor and git hub and haven't found a real explanation on how they fixed it or what is actually wrong.