[Bioc-devel] fData(x) <- gives errors for ExpressionSet objects

[Gordon Smyth]

Martin,

Thanks, upgrading to Biobase 1.16.1 fixes this and other problems.

Cheers
Gordon

At 04:40 PM 1/11/2007, Martin Morgan wrote:
>Thanks Gordon for the report.
>
>I think the row names being objected to are the varMetadata row names
>(only two of them), rather than the pData row names. More importantly,
>I think this was fixed in Biobase 1.16.1, on October 15 (reported by
>Richard Pearson around that time).
>
>Sorry for the inconvenience; if there are other problems, or this is
>not addressed in the patch, then please let me know.
>
>Martin
>
>Gordon Smyth <smyth at wehi.EDU.AU> writes:
>
> > I've a lot trouble adding information to the featureData of
> > ExpressionSet objects. Here is a small reproducible example which
> > shows up one error message.
> >
> >  > library(Biobase)
> >  > example(ExpressionSet)
> >
> >  > fData(expressionSet)
> > NULL data frame with 500 rows
> >  > df <- data.frame(a=1:500,b=1:500)
> >  > rownames(df) <- featureNames(expressionSet)
> >  > eS <- expressionSet;
> >  > all.equal(row.names(fData(eS)),row.names(df))
> > [1] TRUE
> >  > fData(eS) <- df
> >
> > This all seems good so far. I've been able to overwrite the pData()
> > data.frame. But suppose I add a column first. It shouldn't make any
> > difference, but now replacing the data.frame now longer works. The
> > error complains about row.names, but these are still apparently correct.
> >
> > Gordon
> >
> >  > eS <- expressionSet
> >  > fData(eS)$Number <- 1:500
> >  > all.equal(row.names(fData(eS)),row.names(df))
> > [1] TRUE
> >  > fData(eS) <- df
> > Error in `row.names<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, value = c("a", "b")) :
> >    invalid 'row.names' length
> >
> >  > sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
> > i386-pc-mingw32
> >
> > locale:
> > 
> LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices
> > utils     datasets  methods   base
> >
> > other attached packages:
> > [1] Biobase_1.16.0
> >
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