[Bioc-devel] modify _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ ?

[Michael Lawrence]

Switching aligners is very likely going to affect the results. You
could have Rbowtie as the built-in aligner, and then provide Rsubread
support as a simple add-on package.

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:49 AM, Bhardwaj, Vivek
<bhardwaj at ie-freiburg.mpg.de> wrote:
> ??I think one option for me would be to switch to RBowtie instead of Rsubread, since this seems to have a windows binary. I would try this as soon as I have access to a windows system.
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> Vivek Bhardwaj
> PhD Candidate | International Max Planck Research School
> Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
> Stübeweg 51, Freiburg
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> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] modify _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ ?
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> @All thanks for your comments
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> I have provided Rsubread mapping wrapper as an optional step in the pipeline. Users can continue the analysis after mapping with their tool of choice as well. Therefore I added it in "suggests" and skip running it in the example and don't evaluate that chunk in the vignette.
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> I wouldn't want to skip supporting windows only because of an optional step, but I also prefer to keep that function as it allows users to perform end-to-end analysis in R if they wish to.
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> What would be the best option for me for now?
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> On 5/19/18 12:00 AM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
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> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 2:26 PM, Martin Morgan
> <martin.morgan at roswellpark.org><mailto:martin.morgan at roswellpark.org> wrote:
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> You can create a plain text file in the root directory of your package
> .BBSoptions with the line
>
>   UnsupportedPlatform: win
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> Your package will not be available on Windows, losing about 1/2 your
> potential audience.
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> I'm not sure how many people will endeavor to run that part of the
> icetea pipeline on their Windows laptop. What about separating the
> preprocessing and downstream exploratory stuff into two packages?
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> A better strategy is to figure out why you are
> Suggests:'ing Rsubread, and find alternative cross-platform solutions.
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> I would not hesitate to add your voice to mine in asking the Rsubread
> maintainer to make their package cross-platform compatible. While this
> requires considerable work, it would benefit the Bioconductor community in
> this and subsequent years.
>
> Martin
>
> On 05/18/2018 04:55 PM, Bhardwaj, Vivek wrote:
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> Hi All
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> My package is in review and the build is failing since a suggested package
> (Rsubread) is not available on windows. Is there a way for me to instruct
> the build machine on bioc to use: _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ = FALSE ??
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> Best,
>
> Vivek
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> Vivek Bhardwaj
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> Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
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