[Bioc-devel] is there such a thing as too much dependency?

2013-02-22 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Following up on the discussion this morning about refining the guidelines for using existing classes and generics, I am wondering if there is such a thing as too much dependency. Say there is a package that has a useful class, but it depends/imports 10 other packages (none of which I would imp

Re: [Bioc-devel] I would like to publish a bioconductor package.

2013-02-27 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
You can solve the package size issue by putting your example data in a separate "experiment data" package (http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/data/experiment/). Stephanie On 2/27/13 3:03 AM, Davide Rambaldi wrote: Hi all, I am working on a library called flowFit, the purpose of thi

[Bioc-devel] converting character vector to DNAStringSetList

2013-04-19 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Hi all, There is a non-exported function in VariantAnnotation called .toDNAStringSetList that converts a vector of comma-separated character strings to a DNAStringSetList. I'd like to use this code in a package I'm working on. Would it make sense to export this from Biostrings? If not, wha

Re: [Bioc-devel] converting character vector to DNAStringSetList

2013-04-19 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
NAStringSetList constructor, so I'm glad it will be starting tomorrow. Stephanie On 4/19/13 12:35 PM, Hervé Pagès wrote: Hi Stephanie, On 04/19/2013 11:55 AM, Stephanie M. Gogarten wrote: Hi all, There is a non-exported function in VariantAnnotation called .toDNAStringSetList that conver

Re: [Bioc-devel] exp. data, updates

2013-07-10 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
I had this issue with GWASTools/GWASdata at one point. There is only one copy of an experiment data package, so if you change it, it will break the current release version of bsseq. The solution I came up with was to add new objects with different names to the data package, and change my exam

[Bioc-devel] asVCF error coming from normalizeSingleBracketSubscript

2013-11-22 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Hi Valerie, The asVCF method in SeqArray is failing as of today with a (to me) mysterious error. I get it for the test files chr22.vcf.gz, ex2.vcf, and gl_chr1.vcf in extdata of VariantAnnotation, but not for SeqArray/extdata/CEU_Exon.vcf. Do you have any suggestions of where I might look t

Re: [Bioc-devel] asVCF error coming from normalizeSingleBracketSubscript

2013-12-09 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
subscript contains NAs One solution is use %in% which does not return NAs. Browse[2]> x %in% "" LogicalList of length 5 [[1]] FALSE [[2]] FALSE [[3]] FALSE FALSE [[4]] FALSE [[5]] FALSE FALSE Valerie On 11/22/2013 03:11 PM, Stephanie M. Gogarten wrote: Hi Valerie, The asVCF metho

[Bioc-devel] Job opening: Research Scientist in Biostatistics (Seattle, WA)

2013-12-20 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Dear Bioconductors, The Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington, Seattle has a position open for a Research Scientist/Engineer 4. Basic responsibilities are to provide data analysis, programming, experimental design, interpretation and reporting of results for statistical

Re: [Bioc-devel] restrictToSNV for VCF

2014-03-19 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
I would say rows 1 and 3 are SNVs, but not row 4. For this application I think a variant has to be an SNV or not, as you can't pass half a variant. (I suppose you could remove the ALT values with length > 1 and set those genotypes to missing, but that is both complicated and unexpected behavi

Re: [Bioc-devel] Confusing namespace issue with IRanges 1.99.17

2014-07-09 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
On 7/8/14 12:27 PM, Hervé Pagès wrote: On 07/08/2014 11:58 AM, Leonardo Collado Torres wrote: Hello, Thank you everyone for the replies and help! I did not know that it was due to S4Vectors::extractROWS nor what Hervé exposed about the upcoming changes to them. Regarding "probably it is not

Re: [Bioc-devel] Please help us try out our new support site!

2014-08-19 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Are tags in "My Tags" automatically Watched? Or should I enter those tags in both fields? I really like the option to get email when my packages are mentioned. I think it will mean that users get help faster, since those of us who are not constantly watching the mailing list will see relevan

Re: [Bioc-devel] Please bump version number when committing changes

2014-09-05 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
I am guilty of doing this today, but I have (I think) a good reason. I'm making a bunch of changes that are all related to each other, but are being implemented and tested in stages. I'd like to use svn to commit when I've made a set of changes that works, so I can roll back if I break somethi

Re: [Bioc-devel] Help with creating first Bioconductor package

2014-11-14 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
On 11/14/14, 9:20 AM, Laurent Gatto wrote: Dear January, On 14 November 2014 10:51, January Weiner wrote: 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 ful

Re: [Bioc-devel] RSS package feeds not updated

2014-12-02 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
On 12/2/14 8:17 AM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: - Original Message - From: "Julian Gehring" To: bioc-devel@r-project.org Cc: "Felix Klein" Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 2:19:01 AM Subject: [Bioc-devel] RSS package feeds not updated Hi, some/many of the package build RSS feeds [1] don'

[Bioc-devel] bug in source control HOWTO

2014-12-04 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Using the URLs exactly as given on the "Source Control" HOWTO results in the following error: svn co https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/branches/RELEASE_3_0/madman/Rpacks/MYPACKAGENAME svn merge -c140 https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/gentleman/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/MYPACKAGENAME sv

[Bioc-devel] version increments for unchanged packages

2015-06-11 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Why is it that packages with no changes still get new version numbers at every release? For example, my experiment data package GWASdata has not changed since the last release, but the version was bumped from 1.4.0 to 1.6.0. I imagine most users expect that a change in version number indicates

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reducing memory footprint of large object

2015-11-05 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
gdsfmt is another option for storing large datasets on disk, similar to HDF5. Take a look at packages SNPRelate, GWASTools and SeqArray which all use it to store genotype data. Stephanie On 11/5/15 8:41 AM, Fischer, Bernd wrote: Hi Christian, you should have a look at packages that for parti

[Bioc-devel] ncdf deprecation

2015-11-30 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
I was notified today that the ncdf package is deprecated and will be removed from CRAN in January. Since this date does not correspond with a Bioconductor release, is it possible to add ncdf to the Bioconductor "extra" repository for the duration of this release? I will modify GWASTools to use

[Bioc-devel] ncdf4 not installed on build machines

2016-01-13 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
How long does it usually take for a new package added to Imports to become available on the build machines? I updated GWASTools on January 4 to depend on ncdf4 instead of ncdf, but the build report for 2/3 machines still says "ncdf4 not available". thanks, Stephanie __

[Bioc-devel] build error not showing up in RSS feed

2016-03-25 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
I have a build error for SeqVarTools, but it didn't show up in the package RSS feed. The last message I got via RSS was "NotNeeded" for install. Stephanie ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel

[Bioc-devel] adding a package maintainer

2016-12-27 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Which core team member should we contact to add a new maintainer to an existing package? thanks, Stephanie ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel

Re: [Bioc-devel] covr

2017-02-27 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Hi Estefania, After you commit to your github repository, you will need to explicitly push those changes to svn to get them into Bioconductor devel. I recommend following the instructions under "Dealing with prior history / merge conflicts" on this page: http://www.bioconductor.org/developer

Re: [Bioc-devel] Commiting from git to svn

2017-04-06 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Try following the steps under "Dealing with prior history / merge conflicts" on the git mirror page: http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git-mirrors/ Using "git cherry-pick" instead of rebase seems to avoid a lot of errors. Stephanie On 4/5/17 8:18 AM, Lluís Revilla wrote: Dear all,

[Bioc-devel] adding methods to BiocGenerics

2017-05-19 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Dear Core Team, What do you think about adding the following generics to BiocGenerics? colData rowRanges ref alt qual filt header fixed info geno They are currently defined by both VariantAnnotation/SummarizedExperiment and SeqArray. Given the increasingly widespread use of VCF files, it seem

Re: [Bioc-devel] adding methods to BiocGenerics

2017-05-19 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Array and VariantAnnotation in the same session, as they would have to add the package name with "::" to disambiguate the methods. Martin On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Stephanie M. Gogarten wrote: Dear Core Team, What do you think about adding the following generics

Re: [Bioc-devel] git transition for projects with prior git history

2017-08-10 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
I tried following the instructions in scenario 9 after adding a remote: $ git remote add upstream https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/GENESIS.git $ git fetch --all Fetching origin Fetching upstream warning: no common commits When I merge both upstream and origin, I see all my commits in duplic

Re: [Bioc-devel] Git transition -- regenerating repositories from svn

2017-08-21 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
If we followed the steps here: https://www.bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/maintain-github-bioc/ How much, if any, of this will need to be redone after the repositories are regenerated? In particular, if I don't have an unknown user, will the regenerated commits be equal to the previous

Re: [Bioc-devel] Git transition -- regenerating repositories from svn

2017-08-21 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
thanks, Stephanie On 8/21/17 1:23 PM, Martin Morgan wrote: On 08/21/2017 03:17 PM, Stephanie M. Gogarten wrote: If we followed the steps here: https://www.bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/maintain-github-bioc/ How much, if any, of this will need to be redone after the repositories are r

Re: [Bioc-devel] New pre-receive hook on git.bioconductor.org

2017-08-30 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Hi Nitesh, Does this mean that merge commits are not allowed? I have been developing features on branches and then merging back into the master branch with a merge commit, which helps me keep track of which commits go together in a single feature. But when I just tried to push upstream, I was

[Bioc-devel] splitting a Bioconductor package in two

2017-09-06 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Hi, If one wanted to move some code from an existing Bioconductor package into its own, separate package for ease of maintenance, would that constitute a new package submission with the full review process? Or is there some expedited submission available? We are refactoring the GENESIS packa

[Bioc-devel] BiocGenerics request

2017-10-13 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Can we move the "asVCF" generic to BiocGenerics? thanks, Stephanie ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocGenerics request

2017-10-13 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
t's not attached until the method is called (with requireNamespace)? thanks, Stephanie The VCF class is defined in the VariantAnnotation package so it would be weird to have the asVCF() generic in BiocGenerics. Cheers, H. On 10/13/2017 01:55 PM, Stephanie M. Gogarten wrote: Can we move

Re: [Bioc-devel] EXTERNAL: R version dependence of a new package

2017-10-24 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Dear Yaoyong, Can you remove the R version dependency from your DESCRIPTION file entirely? That will eliminate the warning, but will also not suggest to users that they need a newer version of R than is necessary. R 2.3.0 was released in 2006, so it seems highly unlikely that anyone would be

Re: [Bioc-devel] Package additional maintainers

2017-10-31 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Is this a new policy? Will packages that currently have multiple maintainers be required to remove all but one? All three of the packages I maintain have multiple maintainers listed. In two cases, I added a second maintainer to the packages before I went on parental leave, to ensure that someo

Re: [Bioc-devel] Confusion with how to maintain release/devel files on local computer.

2017-11-01 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
One possible point of confusion: Laurent's workflow includes maintaining separate branches "master" and "devel", which he syncs to his own Github repo and Bioconductor's git repo respectively. However, the documentation on the bioc website (https://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/) assum

Re: [Bioc-devel] Missing link files in Windows (release and devel)

2018-01-17 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
This sentence seems to indicate that the original format \link[base]{rbind} should work: "Because they have been frequently misused, the HTML help system looks for topic foo in package pkg if it does not find file foo.html." On 1/17/18 8:56 AM, James W. MacDonald wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2018

Re: [Bioc-devel] Virtual class for `matrix` and `DelayedArray`? (or better strategy for dealing with them both)

2018-04-30 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Rather than a class union, how about an internal function that is called by the methods for both matrix and DelayedArray: setGeneric("myNewRowMeans", function(x,...) { standardGeneric("myNewRowMeans")}) #' @importFrom DelayedArray rowMeans .myNewRowMeans <- function(x,...){ # a lot of co

Re: [Bioc-devel] Bioc2019 planning committee

2018-09-12 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Are there any plans to have another BioC on the west coast in the near future? thanks, Stephanie On 9/10/18 1:32 PM, Levi Waldron wrote: Hi all, I'm organizing a planning committee for Bioc2019 in New York City (at NYU and Rockefeller University), June 24-26. There is lots to be done includin