[Bioc-devel] Struggles with correct import .....

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Tue Dec 3 17:13:55 CET 2013


>>>>> Kasper Daniel Hansen <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:37:00 -0500 writes:

    > Ok, I analyzed the package using codetoolsBioC and there
    > were a number of missing imports, including what Leonardo
    > has described.  I have fixed those in bumphunter 1.3.3

    > Kasper

Impressing and interesting.   I don't see  'codetoolsBioC' to be
available via biocLite().

What's the recommended way to have it among the bioconductor
packages ?

Martin

    > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
    > kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:

    >> I'll have a look.
    >> 
    >> Basically, issues such as this is never the end-users
    >> problem and is likely to either be caused by bumphunter
    >> not importing correctly (most likely) or IRanges not
    >> exporting correctly.
    >> 
    >> Kasper
    >> 
    >> 
    >> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Leonardo Collado Torres
    >> < lcollado at jhsph.edu> wrote:
    >> 
    >>> Hello,
    >>> 
    >>> Found how to solve this. Basically, the NAMESPACE of the
    >>> bumphunter package is not complete (I think).
    >>> 
    >>> I downloaded
    >>> 
    >>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/src/contrib/bumphunter_1.2.0.tar.gz
    >>> , changed the version to 1.2.1 and added/modified the
    >>> following lines to the NAMESPACE:
    >>> 
    >>> importFrom(IRanges, IRanges, distance,
    >>> distanceToNearest, subjectHits)
    >>> importMethodsFrom(GenomicRanges, seqnames, sort, strand,
    >>> elementMetadata)
    >>> 
    >>> Once bumphunter was importing IRanges::distance, I got
    >>> past the error I reported. Then I found other errors
    >>> related to bumphunter not importing the GenomicRanges
    >>> strand and elementMetadata functions, as well as the
    >>> IRanges distanceToNearest, IRanges and subjectHits
    >>> functions.
    >>> 
    >>> Best, Leo
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Leonardo Collado Torres
    >>> < lcollado at jhsph.edu > wrote:
    >>> 
    >>> > Hi Harris,
    >>> >
    >>> > Answering your question from your first email, I do
    >>> not think that it > would help if bumphunter exported
    >>> matchGenes() or .matchGenes().
    >>> >
    >>> > Currently by just importing annotateNearest(), R is
    >>> correctly able to use > annotateNearest(), then
    >>> .matchGenes(), and also nearestgene(). The problem > is
    >>> that nearestgene() uses IRanges::distance() but that
    >>> function is not > being found even after importing it.
    >>> >
    >>> > So as far as I understand, everything should be
    >>> working since the > NAMESPACE<
    >>> https://github.com/lcolladotor/derfinder/blob/v0.0.34/NAMESPACE>has:
    >>> >
    >>> > importFrom(bumphunter,annotateNearest) >
    >>> importMethodsFrom(IRanges,distance) >
    >>> importFrom(IRanges,distance)
    >>> >
    >>> > That is why I am confused and do not know what is the
    >>> cause of the problem.
    >>> >
    >>> >
    >>> > One possible explanation could be that bumphunter's
    >>> NAMESPACE
    >>> >
    >>> https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/bumphunter/NAMESPACEdoesn't
    >>> > import the IRanges::distance method.
    >>> >
    >>> >
    >>> >
    >>> > Regarding your second email (quoted below), I do not
    >>> import the > IRanges::nearest method, but it doesn't
    >>> seem to be causing problems.  That > could be because
    >>> bumphunter does import the IRanges::nearest method
    >>> >
    >>> > If I comment out line 147 of >
    >>> https://github.com/lcolladotor/derfinder/blob/v0.0.34/R/analyzeChr.R,
    >>> > aka, comment out library("bumphunter") the example for
    >>> analyzeChr() fails > with:
    >>> >
    >>> > Error in withCallingHandlers(expr, warning =
    >>> function(w) > invokeRestart("muffleWarning")) : > could
    >>> not find function "distance"
    >>> >
    >>> > So yes, I get the same error in real life and not only
    >>> in CMD check.
    >>> >
    >>> >
    >>> > Adding to the NAMESPACE the following line doesn't
    >>> help either.
    >>> >
    >>> > importMethodsFrom(IRanges,nearest)
    >>> >
    >>> >
    >>> >
    >>> >
    >>> > Best, > Leo
    >>> >
    >>> >
    >>> >
    >>> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Harris A. Jaffee
    >>> <hj at jhu.edu> wrote:
    >>> >
    >>> >> In nearestgene(), before the call to distance, there
    >>> is a call to nearest.  >> How is that getting resolved?
    >>> Did you import nearest from IRanges?  Can >> you run
    >>> nearestgene under debug and step through it, seeing how
    >>> nearest is >> resolved?  Do you only get an error from
    >>> CMD check and not in real life?
    >>> >>
    >>> >>
    >>> >> On Nov 20, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Leonardo Collado Torres
    >>> wrote:
    >>> >>
    >>> >> > Dear BioC-devel list,
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > I have what I hope is a simple problem. Basically,
    >>> a function in my >> package uses
    >>> bumphunter::annotateNearest. This function in turn uses
    >>> >> IRanges::distance.
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > I would expect that using the following roxygen2
    >>> info would work:
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > #' @importMethodsFrom IRanges distance >> > #'
    >>> @importFrom bumphunter annotateNearest >> > #'
    >>> @importFrom IRanges distance
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > Note that "distance" is a generic in IRanges with
    >>> methods for "Ranges"
    >>> >>
    >>> https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/IRanges/R/nearest-methods.R
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > When using devtools::check (or R CMD check) I end
    >>> up with the following >> error:
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > Error in withCallingHandlers(expr, warning =
    >>> function(w) >> invokeRestart("muffleWarning")) : >> >
    >>> could not find function "distance" >> > Calls:
    >>> analyzeChr -> annotateNearest -> .matchGenes ->
    >>> nearestgene >> > Execution halted
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > Note that using library("bumphunter") before the
    >>> annotateNearest call >> works. But we would like to have
    >>> it work by using the correct namespace >> imports.
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > Thank you for your help!
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > Best, >> > Leonardo
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > PS Function in question is >>
    >>> https://github.com/lcolladotor/derfinder/blob/master/R/analyzeChr.R
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > > sessionInfo() >> > R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
    >>> >> > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > locale: >> > [1]
    >>> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > attached base packages: >> > [1] stats graphics
    >>> grDevices utils datasets methods base
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > other attached packages: >> > [1] derfinder_0.0.34
    >>> RcppArmadillo_0.3.920.1 Rcpp_0.10.6 >> roxygen2_2.2.2
    >>> digest_0.6.3 devtools_1.3
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> > [1]
    >>> AnnotationDbi_1.24.0 Biobase_2.22.0 BiocGenerics_0.8.0
    >>> >> biomaRt_2.18.0 Biostrings_2.30.1 biovizBase_1.10.3 >>
    >>> > [7] bitops_1.0-6 brew_1.0-6 BSgenome_1.30.0 >>
    >>> bumphunter_1.2.0 cluster_1.14.4 codetools_0.2-8 >> >
    >>> [13] colorspace_1.2-4 DBI_0.2-7 dichromat_2.0-0 >>
    >>> doRNG_1.5.5 evaluate_0.5.1 foreach_1.4.1 >> > [19]
    >>> GenomicFeatures_1.14.0 GenomicRanges_1.14.3 ggbio_1.10.7
    >>> >> ggplot2_0.9.3.1 grid_3.0.2 gridExtra_0.9.1 >> > [25]
    >>> gtable_0.1.2 Hmisc_3.12-2 httr_0.2 >> IRanges_1.20.5
    >>> iterators_1.0.6 itertools_0.1-1 >> > [31] labeling_0.2
    >>> lattice_0.20-24 locfit_1.5-9.1 >> MASS_7.3-29
    >>> matrixStats_0.8.12 memoise_0.1 >> > [37] munsell_0.4.2
    >>> parallel_3.0.2 pkgmaker_0.17.4 >> plyr_1.8 proto_0.3-10
    >>> qvalue_1.36.0 >> > [43] R.methodsS3_1.5.2
    >>> RColorBrewer_1.0-5 RCurl_1.95-4.1 >> registry_0.2
    >>> reshape2_1.2.2 rngtools_1.2.3 >> > [49] rpart_4.1-3
    >>> Rsamtools_1.14.1 RSQLite_0.11.4 >> rtracklayer_1.22.0
    >>> scales_0.2.3 stats4_3.0.2 >> > [55] stringr_0.6.2
    >>> tcltk_3.0.2 tools_3.0.2 >> VariantAnnotation_1.8.5
    >>> whisker_0.3-2 XML_3.95-0.2 >> > [61] xtable_1.7-1
    >>> XVector_0.2.0 zlibbioc_1.8.0
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> > Leonardo Collado Torres, PhD student >> >
    >>> Department of Biostatistics >> > Johns Hopkins
    >>> University >> > Bloomberg School of Public Health >> >
    >>> Website: http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~lcollado/ >> >
    >>> Blog: http://lcolladotor.github.io/
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> >
    >>> >>
    >>> >>
    >>> >
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