[Bioc-devel] ornery package: Users are warned that some or all of the manufacturer supplied files that this package is based on have been labeled as unsupported by their sources

[Wolfgang Huber]

Hi Marc

thank you! How about something like:

Warning from hugene10stv1cdf: the data in this package are based on 
mapping files labeled as 'unsupported' by their source.

	Best wishes
	Wolfgang
	



Il Jan/15/11 12:45 AM, Marc Carlson ha scritto:
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> Sorry that our warning was confusing to you.  That warning is just
> trying to tell you that Affymetrix has put the base mapping files online
> and then, right next to these files has placed the ambiguous and scary
> sounding warning that these files are "unsupported".
>
> We felt that you should be aware about what the manufacturer had said
> about that,  and other users have agreed with us that they wanted to be
> warned about this message so we have passed it along as a warning that
> loads when the package is loaded.  Sometime before the next release, I
> will adjust the code that is issuing the warning, and the packages that
> need to call this code, so that you can at least know more clearly which
> package is issuing by the warning even if you are calling it from
> several layers away.  But in the meantime, if you have an alternate
> wording for the warning that you think would be more clear, please let
> us know.
>
>
>    Marc
>
>
>
> On 01/12/2011 10:48 AM, Wolfgang Huber wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I noted that loading hugene10stv1cdf produces the above message, which
>> eventually seems to stem from AnnotationDbi.
>>
>> I first encountered this when running a script that processes an
>> Affymetrix dataset where that CDF package was 'autoloaded', and was
>> quite puzzled.
>>
>> * Would it make sense if the message stated explicitly from which
>> package it is emitted?
>>
>> * A warning is given, but so what? Can the message be more
>> constructive about what I should do about it?
>>
>> Thanks and best wishes
>> Wolfgang
>>
>>
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