[Bioc-devel] GEOquery for Bioc devel

[Dan Tenenbaum]

Maybe. If the package does not build for many days on end, it's more than flakiness and one wonders if the service is usable at all.
Tests that indicate this seem appropriate to me, though I agree false positives can be annoying.
Dan


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vincent Carey" <stvjc at channing.harvard.edu>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> Cc: "Kasper Daniel Hansen" <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com>, "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 8, 2016 8:46:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] GEOquery for Bioc devel

> Hmm.  Very important piece of software so we should try to remedy this.  I
> had assigned some GEOquery problems in the edX class and there were some
> people who could not get getGEO to work, but the problem seemed
> intermittent.  There was a workaround posted on the support site which
> involved separate steps for assay and platform data acquisition; ultimately
> the solution data object was just made available directly.
> 
> Can/should we make the build/distribution process robust to data server
> flakiness?  The user may encounter intermittent problems, but the software
> should still be available IMHO.
> Reduce server-dependent tests and examples?
> 
> On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> It has not built since the devel (3.4) builds started. Apparently GEO has
>> been pretty flaky.
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Kasper Daniel Hansen" <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com>
>> > To: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
>> > Sent: Sunday, May 8, 2016 5:54:59 AM
>> > Subject: [Bioc-devel] GEOquery for Bioc devel
>>
>> > I don't see GEOquery for Bioc devel.  Is that a mistake somehow?
>> >
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