[Bioc-devel] Failing to build vignette because of problems with ImageMagick

Vincent Carey @tvjc @end|ng |rom ch@nn|ng@h@rv@rd@edu
Wed Oct 9 14:17:52 CEST 2019


On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 6:55 AM Andrzej Oleś <andrzej.oles using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Vince,
>
> I briefly communicated with Martin regarding this issue a few days ago.
> The ImageMagick convert tool called by BiocStyle through a knitr figure
> cropping hook can certainly be improved, as pointed out by Yihui in the in
> the GitHub issue linked by Christian. This is something I will look into.
> However, I don't think that your failing builds are related to BiocStyle. I
> can only second on what Herve has already mentioned here: the observed
> convert messages are picked up as warnings by 'R CMD build' and they don't
> actually cause the build to fail.
>

Thank you Andrzej ... I missed this point.  Because it is a
platform-specific failure (no prob on linux or mac)
I assumed that this event was the problem.  I will look more closely at a
windows build attempt.


>
> Cheers,
> Andrzej
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 12:10 PM Vincent Carey <stvjc using channing.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Just wondering whether this has been followed up.  I am still seeing build
>> errors for
>> windows related to this.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:20 AM Christian Mertes <mertes using in.tum.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I just came across this issue on rmarkdown which links the same problem
>> to
>> > BiocStyle.
>> > The post is from Nov 2017.
>> >
>> > https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues/1207
>> >
>> > Maybe this helps to understand the underlying problem?
>> >
>> > It was suggested to check this in BiocStyle:
>> >
>> > Have you reported to the authors of BiocStyle? It seems they enabled the
>> > *knitr* hook knitr::hook_pdfcrop unconditionally (i.e. without checking
>> > if ImageMagick has been installed).
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Christian
>> > On 9/11/19 5:50 PM, Pages, Herve wrote:
>> >
>> > New to me too. But it seems that knitr suggests magick, which itself has
>> >
>> >    SystemRequirements: ImageMagick++: ImageMagick-c++-devel (rpm) or
>> > libmagick++-dev (deb)
>> >
>> > Don't know when this knitr dep on magick was introduced tough... Bummer!
>> >
>> > H.
>> >
>> > On 9/11/19 06:13, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>> >
>> > Yeah, does this imply that the render operation uses (or tries to use)
>> > ImageMagick? That's news to me, but I am not following this closely.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 5:21 AM Pages, Herve <hpages using fredhutch.org
>> <mailto:hpages using fredhutch.org> <hpages using fredhutch.org>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     On 9/11/19 00:50, Vincent Carey wrote:
>> >      > I seem to be running into a similar problem with BiocOncoTK on
>> >     windows
>> >      >
>> >      > The build report for tokay1 shows:
>> >      >
>> >      > Loading required package: ontologyIndex
>> >      > Invalid Parameter - /figure-html
>> >      > Warning in shell(paste(c(cmd, args), collapse = " ")) :
>> >      >    'convert "BiocOncoTK_files/figure-html/lkgbm-1.png" -trim
>> >      > "BiocOncoTK_files/figure-html/lkgbm-1.png"' execution failed with
>> >      > error code 4
>> >      > Invalid Parameter - /figure-html
>> >      >
>> >      > The figure code is introduced with ```{r
>> >     lkgbm,fig=TRUE,message=FALSE}
>> >      > ... the 'convert' process is not requested by me
>> >      >
>> >      > Is the fig=TRUE problematic for windows?  It seems unnecessary.
>> >
>> >     Not sure what's going on. A few observations:
>> >
>> >     a) About 500 software packages use fig=TRUE.
>> >
>> >     b) The convert warning is just a warning. The actual error in the
>> case
>> >     of BiocOncoTK is:
>> >
>> >         Error: processing vignette 'BiocOncoTK.Rmd' failed with
>> diagnostics:
>> >     argument is of length zero
>> >
>> >         Note that the ndexr vignette also fails with this error on
>> tokay1
>> >     only but it doesn't have the convert warning (this vignette does not
>> >     use
>> >     'fig' at all). So it's not clear to me that the "argument is of
>> length
>> >     zero" error is related to the convert warning.
>> >
>> >     c) The devel build report shows the convert warning for 4 other
>> >     packages
>> >     (CAGEfightR, CATALYST, CTDquerier, specL) but each of them actually
>> >     fails with a different error message:
>> >
>> >         CAGEfightR:
>> >           colData(object1) not identical to colData(object2)
>> >
>> >         CATALYST:
>> >           no slot of name "reducedDims" for this object of class
>> "daFrame"
>> >
>> >         CTDquerier:
>> >           bfcadd() failed; see warnings()
>> >
>> >         specL:
>> >           pandoc.exe: Out of memory
>> >
>> >         These errors don't seem related to the convert warning either.
>> >
>> >     So I'm wondering: could it be that the convert warning is actually
>> >     common but we generally don't see it because 'R CMD build' doesn't
>> >     report warnings? And that we just happen to see the warning when 'R
>> CMD
>> >     build' fails to build a vignette.
>> >
>> >     We'll investigate more.
>> >
>> >     H.
>> >
>> >
>> >      >
>> >      > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 11:35 AM Christian Mertes
>> >     <mertes using in.tum.de <mailto:mertes using in.tum.de> <mertes using in.tum.de>>
>> wrote:
>> >      >
>> >      >> Thanks a lot for the info! So from my understanding we dont use
>> any
>> >      >> trimming or editing function from ImageMagick directly. I think
>> >     this is
>> >      >> rather knitr based since we just include png files in the
>> vignette.
>> >      >>
>> >      >> I guess it was an hickup since now the error is gone over night.
>> >      >>
>> >      >> Best regards,
>> >      >>
>> >      >> Christian
>> >      >>
>> >      >> On 9/9/19 4:34 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>> >      >>> You don't declare any systems requirements for ImageMagick
>> >     (doing so
>> >      >>> will probably not solve your problem, but you really should).
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>> Alternatively you could look into using the tools provided by
>> the
>> >      >>> magick package, which wraps ImageMagick.
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>> But it looks like you're editing PNG files for your vignette. I
>> >     would
>> >      >>> really recommend not doing so. It introduces a system
>> >     dependency which
>> >      >>> is just going to increase headaches on your end, for (perhaps)
>> >     no real
>> >      >>> tangible benefits. If you're trimming PNGs, you should be able
>> to
>> >      >>> achieve the same effect when using the png device(s) in R, and
>> that
>> >      >>> will make everything more portable anyway.
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 9:42 AM Christian Mertes
>> >     <mertes using in.tum.de <mailto:mertes using in.tum.de> <mertes using in.tum.de>
>> >      >>> <mailto:mertes using in.tum.de <mertes using in.tum.de> <mailto:
>> mertes using in.tum.de> <mertes using in.tum.de>>> wrote:
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      Dear BioC team,
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      I just noticed that our package is failing on the
>> >     bioconductor build
>> >      >>>      system during the build of the vignette on Windows and on
>> >     MacOS
>> >      >>>      platforms.
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      From the error I would guess its a problem with the
>> >     installation
>> >      >>>      of the
>> >      >>>      ImageMagick package. Please correct me if Im wrong.
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      It goes through on travis and appveyor. Any suggestions?
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      Here are some links to the build logs:
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>
>> >
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bioconductor.riken.jp_checkResults_3.9_bioc-2DLATEST_OUTRIDER_&d=DwICAg&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=EwnHWfrov-A-kbkOeSotrFEWVXwIUuSJog3NysTJUnE&s=NA7UQNLz8lFT9bIMHiFka2iUJDarMgfT0uW36-nO9og&e=
>> >      >>>
>> >
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__travis-2Dci.org_gagneurlab_OUTRIDER&d=DwICAg&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=EwnHWfrov-A-kbkOeSotrFEWVXwIUuSJog3NysTJUnE&s=lf9cL5c-plgiqIP3Hx6Eht_Ataw3bG3x3rP7gi79flg&e=
>> >      >>>
>> >
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ci.appveyor.com_project_c-2Dmertes_OUTRIDER&d=DwICAg&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=EwnHWfrov-A-kbkOeSotrFEWVXwIUuSJog3NysTJUnE&s=l-gS-eeyNnK7JCEdHKIUQifQoI40TZZXQox80MniKEA&e=
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      Best,
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      Christian
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      PS: the error message on the bioc build system:
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>
>> >
>>  ##############################################################################
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>
>> >
>>  ##############################################################################
>> >      >>>      ###
>> >      >>>      ### Running command:
>> >      >>>      ###
>> >      >>>      ###   chmod a+r OUTRIDER -R &&
>> >      >>>      C:\Users\biocbuild\bbs-3.9-bioc\R\bin\R.exe CMD build
>> >      >>>      --keep-empty-dirs --no-resave-data OUTRIDER
>> >      >>>      ###
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>
>> >
>>  ##############################################################################
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>
>> >
>>  ##############################################################################
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      * checking for file 'OUTRIDER/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
>> >      >>>      * preparing 'OUTRIDER':
>> >      >>>      * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
>> >      >>>      * cleaning src
>> >      >>>      * installing the package to build vignettes
>> >      >>>      * creating vignettes ... ERROR
>> >      >>>      --- re-building 'OUTRIDER.Rnw' using knitr
>> >      >>>      Invalid Parameter - /deVsOutlier-1.png"
>> >      >>>      Warning in shell(paste(c(cmd, args), collapse = " ")) :
>> >      >>>        'convert "figure/deVsOutlier-1.png" -trim
>> >      >>>      "figure/deVsOutlier-1.png"' execution failed with error
>> code 4
>> >      >>>      229 genes did not passed the filter due to zero counts.
>> >     This is
>> >      >>>      22.9% of the genes.
>> >      >>>      Sat Sep 07 01:16:53 2019: SizeFactor estimation ...
>> >      >>>      Sat Sep 07 01:16:53 2019: Controlling for confounders ...
>> >      >>>      Using estimated q with: 23
>> >      >>>      Sat Sep 07 01:16:53 2019: Using the autoencoder
>> >     implementation for
>> >      >>>      controlling.
>> >      >>>      Sat Sep 07 01:17:52 2019: Used the autoencoder
>> >     implementation for
>> >      >>>      controlling.
>> >      >>>      Sat Sep 07 01:17:52 2019: P-value calculation ...
>> >      >>>      Sat Sep 07 01:17:52 2019: Zscore calculation ...
>> >      >>>      Invalid Parameter - /quick_guide-1.png"
>> >      >>>      Warning in shell(paste(c(cmd, args), collapse = " ")) :
>> >      >>>        'convert "figure/quick_guide-1.png" -trim
>> >      >>>      "figure/quick_guide-1.png"' execution failed with error
>> code 4
>> >      >>>      Quitting from lines 222-232 (OUTRIDER.Rnw)
>> >      >>>      Error: processing vignette 'OUTRIDER.Rnw' failed with
>> >     diagnostics:
>> >      >>>      no lines available in input
>> >      >>>      --- failed re-building 'OUTRIDER.Rnw'
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
>> >      >>>        'OUTRIDER.Rnw'
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      Error: Vignette re-building failed.
>> >      >>>      Execution halted
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      --
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      Christian Mertes
>> >      >>>      PhD Student / Lab Administrator
>> >      >>>      Gagneur lab
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>      Computational Genomics
>> >      >>>      I12 - Bioinformatics Department
>> >      >>>      Technical University Munich
>> >      >>>      Boltzmannstr. 3
>> >      >>>      85748 Garching, Germany
>> >      >>>
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>> >      >>>
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>> --
>> >      >>> Best,
>> >      >>> Kasper
>> >      >>
>> >      >> --
>> >      >>
>> >      >> Christian Mertes
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>> >      >>
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>> >
>> > --
>> > Best,
>> > Kasper
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Christian Mertes
>> > PhD Student / Lab Administrator
>> > Gagneur lab
>> >
>> > Computational Genomics
>> > I12 - Bioinformatics Department
>> > Technical University Munich
>> > Boltzmannstr. 3
>> > 85748 Garching, Germany
>> >
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