[Bioc-devel] Maintenance of MetaNeighbor package

2020-08-31 Thread Stephan Fischer
Hi, My name is Stephan Fischer, I'm a postdoc at CSHL with Dr Jesse Gillis and I'm currently maintaining the internal version of the MetaNeighbor package. The Bioconductor version of the package was previously maintained by Manthan Shah, who left the lab about a year ago. I would like to take

[Bioc-devel] files present in github repository

2020-08-31 Thread Carlos A. Catania (AKA Harpo)
Hi to all, My team is just about to submit a new package to Bioconductor and we have a question about the files included in the github repository: According to Bioconductor Guidelines for package submission, the repo should not contain unnecessary files other than the required for package installa

[Bioc-devel] Is the ExpressionSet Class Deprecated?

2020-08-31 Thread Augustin Luna
Is the ExpressionSet class deprecated? If it is, what are the ramifications of this? * Are new packages barred from using ExpressionSet? * Will existing packages that use ExpressionSet be forced to move to SummarizedExperiment? If so, when? * Often deprecation means the removal of support. If Expr

Re: [Bioc-devel] Is the ExpressionSet Class Deprecated?

2020-08-31 Thread Martin Morgan
If you're asking because you're thinking about package development, then this would be the right place ;) there are answers on the support site, though... Martin On 8/31/20, 11:37 AM, "Bioc-devel on behalf of Augustin Luna" wrote: Is the ExpressionSet class deprecated? If it is, what are

Re: [Bioc-devel] files present in github repository

2020-08-31 Thread Martin Morgan
A reasonable strategy is to create a branch ('master' for submission) that contains just the package source; use another branch for additional functionality. After submission, your package is cloned to the git.bioconductor.org repository and you could maintain it from an arbitrary branch in you