----- Original Message ----- > From: "January Weiner" <january.wei...@gmail.com> > To: bioc-devel@r-project.org > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 2:51:11 AM > Subject: [Bioc-devel] Help with creating first Bioconductor package > > Dear all, > > I am building my first Bioconductor package and, before wasting > everyone's time with a faulty submission, I would like to clarify > certain things. > > 1) The package seems to fulfill the requirements of the Bioconductor > Package Guidelines and passes all checks except one "consideration": > > CONSIDER: Indenting lines with a multiple of 4 spaces; > > I love to indent my code with 2 spaces, is it a problem? Or do I have > to reformat all code before release? This is doable, but it would > complicate my workflow and if I am allowed to avoid it, I will. I see > that not all Bioconductor packages stick to this formatting (many > even > use tabs instead of spaces). >
Note that it just says CONSIDER. So you do not _have_ to do anything. Pay more attention to things that are RECOMMENDED, and definitely fix anything that says REQUIRED. Dan > 2) Another problem I have is the testing package on other platforms. > I > do not have a Windows machine to test my package. Could someone help > me and test my package (build, check and BiocCheck) on Windows and > MacOS? Otherwise -- how do you check your packages? You keep an up to > date R development environment on three platforms? > > 3) Finally, I would love to have someone to go through my package and > tell me what they think. I'm not sure to what extent the reviewing > process is technical (like on CRAN), or whether the actual content of > the package is evaluated as well. The package is small, it is > basically one or two functions that I need in my work and could not > find anywhere else -- it boils down to using Mann-Whitney for GO > enrichment tests on sorted lists of genes, coupled to an algorithm > that works like the "conditional=TRUE" option in hyperGtest. I have > been using this for a while in my work and it does exactly what I > wanted it to do. > > Thank you so much, > > j. > > > -- > -------- January Weiner -------------------------------------- > http://logfc.wordpress.com > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
