[Bioc-devel] Long-form documentation for DelayedArray?

[Francesco Napolitano]

Thank you, Peter, I will have a look!

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Peter Hickey <peter.hickey at gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI I also began a project to support an additional backend;
> https://github.com/PeteHaitch/matterArray. It's incomplete and may not work
> with the current version of DelayedArray (it's ~3 months old and I was
> naughtily using some internal functions of DelayedArray). I hope to return
> to this soon and I have plans for 1-2 other backends, so some additional
> documentation would also be appreciated by me :)
>
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 at 08:01 Hervé Pagès <hpages at fredhutch.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Francesco,
>>
>> On 10/29/2017 10:10 AM, Francesco Napolitano wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > packages submitted to Bioconductor are required to include at least
>> > one vignette. However, it seems that this rule does not hold for some
>> > core packages, such as HDF5Array and DelayedArray. Is there any
>> > special reason for this?
>>
>> Infrastructure packages are not strictly required to have a vignette.
>> However that doesn't mean they shouldn't have one ;-)
>>
>> >
>> > In particular, I'd like to read more about how to create a backend for
>> > DelayedArray. Is there any documentation available beyond the
>> > reference manual?
>>
>> I'm guilty. I plan to remedy this ASAP. In the mean time I'll be glad
>> to help. Note that other people are already working (or planning to
>> work) on other backends:
>>
>> Backend for remote HDF5 data:
>>
>>    https://github.com/vjcitn/RemoteArray
>>
>>    See issues #1, #2, #3 for some discussion about this.
>>
>> Backend for GDS files:
>>
>>    https://github.com/Bioconductor/VariantExperiment/issues/1
>>
>> Cheers,
>> H.
>>
>> >
>> > Thank you very much,
>> > Francesco.
>> >
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