Re: [Bioc-devel] Call for collaborators/advice

2019-03-22 Thread Aaron Lun
Hi Luke, Do you mean bins or bin pairs? If you want to just bin the coverage in terms of the linear genome, there should be ways to do that outside of InteractionSet or GenomicInteractions. This is just dealing with standard genomic interval data; extract the anchor coordinates and plug it in

Re: [Bioc-devel] Call for collaborators/advice

2019-03-22 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
Maybe the question arises whether to store a reduced representation like, say, singleCellExperiment does? In any event, I agree that endomorphism will be expected by users and, like tximport collapsing many transcripts into each gene, the sensible thing to do is just to return a binned (less ro

Re: [Bioc-devel] Call for collaborators/advice

2019-03-22 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
Why is this not "just" a function which transforms one GI into another GI? Thats what it seems to me. On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 12:31 PM Luke Klein wrote: > I am writing a package that will extend the GenomicInteractions class. I > am a statistician, so I may not know best practices when it comes

Re: [Bioc-devel] What is Bioconductor's position on allowing users to create files in the working directory without an explicit path definition in the filename

2019-03-22 Thread Pages, Herve
Hi Koustav, From a Build System point of view, we certainly don't want packages to write files to the user's home (or to the current directory, which might be different from the user's home) during 'R CMD build' and 'R CMD check'. (Note that there is actually no guarantee that the current dir

Re: [Bioc-devel] What is Bioconductor's position on allowing users to create files in the working directory without an explicit path definition in the filename

2019-03-22 Thread Koustav Pal
In response to Vince’s comment: My package already has an implementation for checking if the file exists and then to explicitly require the user’s permission for removing the file In response to Lori’s comment: In my implementation of BiocFileCache, if a user provides a filename without an exp

[Bioc-devel] Call for collaborators/advice

2019-03-22 Thread Luke Klein
I am writing a package that will extend the GenomicInteractions class. I am a statistician, so I may not know best practices when it comes to extending existing classes (eg. should I make a new slot or simply add a column to the `elementMetadata`? Are there existing functions that already do w

Re: [Bioc-devel] What is Bioconductor's position on allowing users to create files in the working directory without an explicit path definition in the filename

2019-03-22 Thread Francesco Ferrari
Dear all, if I understand correctly, the main problem stems from the fact that the function has set a default value for "Output.Filename” argument. Would it then be ok to have NO default value for Output.Filename? So as to force the user to specify one Or alternatively, the solution adopt

Re: [Bioc-devel] What is Bioconductor's position on allowing users to create files in the working directory without an explicit path definition in the filename

2019-03-22 Thread Shepherd, Lori
To chime and expand a bit on Vince's comments: I feel Bioconductor's position when accepting packages , with few exceptions, is that nothing should be written or saved to a users directory without the expressed permission of the user for fear of overwriting a users own directory or files prev

Re: [Bioc-devel] What is Bioconductor's position on allowing users to create files in the working directory without an explicit path definition in the filename

2019-03-22 Thread Vincent Carey
Guidelines on this topic do not seem to be present in our web site; there is a link to Wickham's guide but I don't see that it confronts the topic. I will make some unofficial and possibly wrong remarks. Suppose my function has to create a file "foo.txt". If I do it in the working folder, I migh

[Bioc-devel] What is Bioconductor's position on allowing users to create files in the working directory without an explicit path definition in the filename

2019-03-22 Thread Koustav Pal
Hello, My package HiCBricks was submitted and accepted under the previous 3.8 release of Bioconductor. At the time, during package review, my reviewer had expressed reservations towards my package creating files in the current working directory. [REQUIRED] CreateLego() creates HDF5 files in

[Bioc-devel] New Package Submission Deadline for Bioc Release 3.9

2019-03-22 Thread Shepherd, Lori
The final day to submit new packages to the Bioconductor contributions tracker to have a shot at being included in the upcoming 3.9 release is Friday April 5th. Please note: submission by this date does not guarantee it will be included - the package must undergo an official review and be accep

[Bioc-devel] Bioconductor 3.9 Release Schedule

2019-03-22 Thread Shepherd, Lori
Hi all, The release of Bioconductor 3.9 will be on Tuesday April 30: https://www.bioconductor.org/developers/release-schedule/ Over the next weeks we'll announce key dates on the on bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list. Thanks in advance for cleaning up packages and getting those last minut