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

[Martin Morgan]

On 10/23/2017 04:40 PM, Hervé Pagès wrote:
> Hi Elizabeth,
> 
> Thanks for troubleshooting this.
> 
> Note that testing with identical()/checkIdentical() is safer than with 
> 'any(sort(colnames1) != sort(colnames2))'. The latter won't do the
> right thing if 'colnames1' and 'colnames2' have different lengths.

...but in this case it sounds like you're aiming for a set comparison,

   setequal(colnames1, colnames2)

Martin

> 
> Cheers,
> H.
> 
> 
> On 10/23/2017 01:06 PM, Elizabeth Purdom wrote:
>> 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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