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

Dan Tenenbaum dtenenba at fhcrc.org
Tue Dec 3 17:34:11 CET 2013



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Maechler" <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> To: "Kasper Daniel Hansen" <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com>
> Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 8:13:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Struggles with correct import .....
> 
> >>>>> 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 ?
> 


Check it out from svn:

https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/codetoolsBioC/

(username/password: readonly)

The package has some issues and needs some attention; this is why it has not been released.
It's still useful though.

Dan


> 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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