[Bioc-devel] How to recreate R CMD BUILD environment in interactive session?

[Elizabeth Purdom]

Dear Martin,

Just for completeness, I figured out the discrepancy and solved my problem. In my check, I check that the column names contain the expected names and I didn’t want to make the order required in a certain way so I used sort -- but only of one side because I naively assumed the other side would be fixed:

any(sort(colnames(object at merge_nodeMerge)) != c('Contrast','isMerged','mergeClusterId','Node’)

But the different environments are sorting differently!

In my normal interactive R session:
> sort(c("Contrast", "isMerged", "mergeClusterId", "Node"))
[1] "Contrast"       "isMerged"       "mergeClusterId" "Node"          

In the build version of R however:
Browse[2]> sort(c("Contrast", "isMerged", "mergeClusterId", "Node"))
[1] "Contrast"       "Node"           "isMerged"       "mergeClusterId"

Thank you very much for your help in getting an interactive session in the build environment!

Elizabeth

> On Oct 23, 2017, at 4:35 PM, Martin Morgan <martin.morgan at roswellpark.org> wrote:
> 
> On 10/23/2017 09:59 AM, Elizabeth Purdom wrote:
>>> On Oct 23, 2017, at 3:47 PM, Martin Morgan <martin.morgan at roswellpark.org <mailto:martin.morgan at roswellpark.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 10/23/2017 09:26 AM, Elizabeth Purdom wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I am updating an existing package and I am getting an error in running my vignette (and a similar error in an example in help pages) but ONLY when I run R CMD BUILD. I can’t recreate the error in any session where I can debug and figure out what is happening. So my question is how can I recreate the exact environment of R CMD BUILD that runs the vignette but in an interactive session so that I can figure out what is going on?
>>>> I have tried reproducing the error in other environments:
>>>> * Running R —vanilla interactively and trying the code manually
>>>> * running purl on my vignette to get pure R code and running just the R code with R CMD BATCH —vanilla
>>> 
>>> hint on the specific package and / or error message?
>>> 
>>> My approach would be to install the package, Stangle / purl the vignette, and R -f vignette.R, then trim the vignette to a fast reproducible case. But it sounds like you're doing that...
>>> 
>>> Martin
>>> 
>> Yes, that is what I tried but did not get the error from the R code.
>> And I apologize, it’s the `clusterExperiment` package. My error was so specific to the class created by my package that I didn’t think it would be useful, but here is the relevant error message:
>> Quitting from lines 271-272 (clusterExperimentTutorial.Rmd)
>> Error: processing vignette 'clusterExperimentTutorial.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
>> invalid class "ClusterExperiment" object: merge_nodeMerge must have 4 columns and column names equal to: 'Node','Contrast','isMerged','mergeClusterId'
>> Execution halted
>> I would note that my vignette calls an object that is saved as a data object as part of my package to speed up compilation. But I experimented and you can also switch it so that it creates the object from scratch and doesn’t load the object, and it runs into the same error. There is a `LazyData: false` in my DESCRIPTION File, because I was having problems with my R data object, because it is of the class I make with my package, and without the package loaded there was some problem loading it.
> 
> I can reproduce the error with
> 
> clusterExperiment/vignettes master$ R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES= LC_COLLATE=C R -f clusterExperimentTutorial.R
> 
> leading to
> 
> > ## ----recallRSEC------------------------------------------------------------
> > rsecFluidigm<-RSEC(rsecFluidigm,isCount=TRUE,combineProportion=0.6,mergeMethod="JC",mergeCutoff=0.05)
> Error in validObject(.Object) :
>  invalid class "ClusterExperiment" object: merge_nodeMerge must be data.frame with 4 columns and column names equal to: 'Node','Contrast','isMerged','mergeClusterId'
> Calls: RSEC ... .local -> new -> initialize -> initialize -> validObject
> Execution halted
> 
> and then for work inside R
> 
> 
> clusterExperiment/vignettes$ R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES= LC_COLLATE=C R
> Bioconductor version 3.6 (BiocInstaller 1.27.7), ?biocLite for help
> > source("clusterExperimentTutorial.R", echo=TRUE, max=Inf)
> 
> Does that set you down the right path?
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
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