sc-RNA matrix appears to be empty

I’m trying to load the gene count sparse matrix from this source in R:

oncoscape.v3.sttrcancer.org/atlas.gs.washington.edu.mouse.rna/downloads

However the matrix’s contents appear to be empty. To download I used wget on the command line:

wget -O –
shendure-web.gs.washington.edu/content/members/cao1025/public/mouse_embryo_atlas/gene_count.txt
| head > data.txt

And then load matrix like so:

matrix <-
Matrix::readMM(file=”~/scratch/rtrujillo/RNA-seq/sci-seq/data.txt”)

To ensure these two steps are successful I attempted to graph the counts per cell:

counts_per_cell <- Matrix::colSums(matrix)

plot <- ggplot() + aes(counts_per_cell)+ geom_histogram(binwidth=0.5,
colour=”black”, fill=”white”) ggsave(plot,file=”counts_per_cell.png”)

Which returns this plot.enter image description here

My interpretation is that there are zero counts for all 2 millions of the cells. Am I performing any of these steps incorrectly or is the matrix really completely empty?

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