[Bioc-devel] GenomicFeatures and/or TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene issue: missing tibble
Felix Ernst
|e||x@gm@ern@t @end|ng |rom out|ook@com
Mon Apr 27 23:08:29 CEST 2020
Hi,
Thanks for the discussion and the insight into possible solutions.
I currently have the same problem with settings up an RNAmodR GitHub Action. This fails because the RNAmodR requires RNAmodR.Data, which suggests GenomicRanges, which then leads to GenomeInfoDb and GenomeInfoDbData. What struck me was the fact, that GenomeInfoDbData is installed as a source package after RNAmodR.Data, which is basically the same situation as Leonardo describes for the TxDb packages.
So why is the package GenomeInfoDbData, which does not have any dependencies at all (except R) is not installed first? I tried to fix it by adding GenomeInfoDbData to the depends of RNAmodR. This solved the problem on macOS, but not on windows the tibble problem remains (https://github.com/FelixErnst/RNAmodR/runs/623569724). This makes sense, because tibble is currently available as binary for macOS, but not windows. Adding tibble will probably solve this as well, but that cannot be a permanent solution, can it?
I also have a question regarding the inner working of BiocManager::install: I used the following command to install dependencies: BiocManager::install(remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE, repos = c(BiocManager::repositories(),getOption('repos')))$package). Is the order in which the packages are given important?
To state a hypothesis: In both cases, GenomeInfoDbData and tibble, source packages are affected, which are required, by a binary package, which is then again required by a source package. Maybe this bridge by a binary package is not picked up, when trying to sort for the install order of the source packages.
Does this sound reasonable or is it there something I haven't thought about? Thanks for any advice.
Best regards,
Felix
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-bounces using r-project.org> Im Auftrag von Leonardo Collado Torres
Gesendet: Montag, 27. April 2020 18:07
An: Charlotte Soneson <charlottesoneson using gmail.com>
Cc: Bioc-devel <bioc-devel using r-project.org>
Betreff: Re: [Bioc-devel] GenomicFeatures and/or TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene issue: missing tibble
Hi,
I also ran more tests, which makes me think that the issue was with the list of dependencies we were asking `remotes` to install.
First, regarding the second to last email from Charlotte, the step-wise installation I did mostly using remotes was not ideal. I found a complicated scenario in another package that I contribute to where BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19 had to be downloaded twice (it failed the first time). That was `brainflowprobes` on Windows at
https://github.com/LieberInstitute/brainflowprobes/runs/621460015?check_suite_focus=true#step:12:1142
and https://github.com/LieberInstitute/brainflowprobes/runs/621460015?check_suite_focus=true#step:12:1410.
Downloading such a big package (or any package) twice is really wasteful. So we can discard that path.
Secondly, I also found about remotes::local_package_deps() like Charlotte just mentioned prompted by Martin's question. As suggested by Martin, I'm now trying using BiocManager::install() only since it knows how to resolve Bioc's dependency tree. Thus my current GHA workflow uses BiocManager::install() with the "minimal" deps (the immediate dependencies). I still use remotes::dev_package_deps() to find which packages need to be updated in order to enable the caching functionality later on. I did this installation twice, just as a backup. Then I do a third BiocManager::install() call with any outdated packages across the full dependencies. That's what
https://github.com/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/blob/673608493488ae488ccb66e77e6deae5dabe69e0/.github/workflows/check-bioc.yml#L367-L393
does and here's the relevant code:
message(paste('****', Sys.time(), 'installing BiocManager ****'))
remotes::install_cran("BiocManager")
## Pass #1 at installing dependencies
message(paste('****', Sys.time(), 'pass number 1 at installing
dependencies: local dependencies ****')) local_deps <- remotes::local_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE) deps <- remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE, repos =
BiocManager::repositories())
BiocManager::install(local_deps[local_deps %in% deps$package[deps$diff != 0]])
## Pass #2 at installing dependencies
message(paste('****', Sys.time(), 'pass number 2 at installing
dependencies: local dependencies again ****')) deps <- remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE, repos =
BiocManager::repositories())
BiocManager::install(local_deps[local_deps %in% deps$package[deps$diff != 0]])
## Pass #3 at installing dependencies
message(paste('****', Sys.time(), 'pass number 3 at installing
dependencies: any remaining dependencies ****')) deps <- remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE, repos =
BiocManager::repositories())
BiocManager::install(deps$package[deps$diff != 0])
For all 3 OS (Bioconductor devel docker, macOS, Windows) this works for `derfinderPlot`:
https://github.com/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/actions/runs/89153451.
Actually, in all 3, "pass #2" did nothing. Only in the docker one did pass 3 do something (it updated `pkgbuild` which is not a direct dependency of `derfinderPlot`).
If you like this, given that `BiocManager` already suggests `remotes`, I could add a PR. Something like (with all the arguments and all
that):
bioc_dev_package_deps <- function() {
local_deps <- remotes::local_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE) deps <- remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE, repos =
BiocManager::repositories())
BiocManager::install(local_deps[local_deps %in% deps$package[deps$diff != 0]])
}
Charlotte, in your small example, I saw that
https://github.com/csoneson/testinstall/commit/a5d7f473cad8fbaa4c7df8672dbdcf1994c0dd38
worked. Maybe it would still work with
BiocManager::install('TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene') only (the minimal "deps" you found with Martin's code).
As for remotes::install_bioc() my understanding is that that function ends up using the git Bioconductor versions. Double checking right now, I see that the behavior depends on whether `git2r` is installed https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/blob/master/R/install-bioc.R#L66.
Best,
Leo
PS If you update many packages at the same time with GHA, you can run into timeout problems :P I was just trying to update my GHA workflow on all my packages before the BioC 3.11 freeze.
PS2 Charlotte, I recommend that you set the GITHUB_PAT environment variable https://github.com/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/blob/673608493488ae488ccb66e77e6deae5dabe69e0/.github/workflows/check-bioc.yml#L100.
Otherwise you depend on the one included in remotes and can run into rate limiting issues. Though I actually ran into some even with it :P
https://github.com/LieberInstitute/recountWorkflow/runs/622552889?check_suite_focus=true#step:13:15
https://github.com/LieberInstitute/recountWorkflow/runs/622552889?check_suite_focus=true#step:13:20
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:29 AM Charlotte Soneson <charlottesoneson using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> as for getting the immediate dependencies, this is what remotes does internally (it includes also recommended packages though):
>
> deps <- remotes::local_package_deps(pkgdir = ".", dependencies = TRUE)
>
> I guess I would further simplify the problem by eliminating from 'deps' the packages that do not contribute to the problem. So I wonder what a minimal 'deps' looks like? This would be much more helpful for understanding the problem than many 1000's of lines of output from CI.
>
>
> For my small example package, deps (as created with your code below) was just TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene.
>
> So I conclude that the problem is actually IN BASE R, and that the fix is in the incredibly complicated logic of install.packages.
>
>
> I’m going to agree with this :) just to try to get a bit further, I
> went through the code of remotes, and in the end it comes down to
> calling install.packages() with a certain list of packages, and a
> specified set of repos (e.g.
> https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/blob/5b3da5f852772159cc2a580888e10536
> a43e9199/R/install.R#L75). So I tried to just install some packages
> with install.packages(), in an empty library, to see what would
> happen. Experiments are here (not very easily accessible, I admit, but
> still) if someone is interested:
> https://github.com/csoneson/testinstall/actions
>
> Long story short, this works fine:
> > install.packages("TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene", repos =
> > c(getOption('repos'), BiocManager::repositories()), type = "both",
> > dependencies = TRUE)
>
> This doesn’t (tries to install annotation packages before GenomeInfoDbData):
> > install.packages(c("TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene","IRanges","Ge
> > nomeInfoDb"), repos = c(getOption('repos'),
> > BiocManager::repositories()), type = "both", dependencies = TRUE)
> With other combinations of packages, sometimes it works, sometimes not.
>
> At the same time, this works fine:
> > BiocManager::install(c("TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene","IRanges"
> > ,"GenomeInfoDb"))
>
>
> And one more observation which may or may not be related: locally, this fails for me:
>
> > remotes::install_bioc('TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene')
>
> while this works:
>
> > remotes::install_bioc('SummarizedExperiment’)
>
> Charlotte
>
> On 27 Apr 2020, at 12:11, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan.bioc using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Personally, I wouldn't trust remotes to get the Bioconductor repositories, and hence the dependency graph, correct. I say this mostly because of problems to get BiocManager to get the repositories right during each phase of the Biocoonductor release cycle, not to diss the remotes package.
>
> I'd grab the immediate dependencies ONLY of the new package from the
> DESCRIPTION file (does remotes have a function to do this? I'd trust
> it to do a better job than my hack, but I'd double check it)
>
> dcf = read.dcf("DESCRIPTION", c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo",
> "Enhances", "Suggests")) deps = unlist(strsplit(dcf, ",[[:space:]]*"))
> deps = sub(" .*", "", deps) # no version info
> deps = setdiff(deps, c("R", NA, rownames(installed.packages(priority
> = "high"))))
>
> I'd then do the builds with
>
> BiocManager::install(deps)
>
> If that failed and I wanted to 'peel back' a layer of responsibility
> to get closer to a minimal reproducible example, I'd do
>
> install.packages(deps, repos = BiocManager::repositories())
>
> I believe that (maybe you can confirm?) this fails for your case.
>
> BiocManager::repositories() is just a named character vector -- in
> devel it is currently
>
> dput(BiocManager::repositories())
>
> c(BioCsoft = "https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.11/bioc",
> BioCann = "https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.11/data/annotation",
> BioCexp = "https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.11/data/experiment",
> BioCworkflows = "https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.11/workflows",
> CRAN = "https://cran.rstudio.com")
>
> So I conclude that the problem is actually IN BASE R, and that the fix is in the incredibly complicated logic of install.packages.
>
> I guess I would further simplify the problem by eliminating from 'deps' the packages that do not contribute to the problem. So I wonder what a minimal 'deps' looks like? This would be much more helpful for understanding the problem than many 1000's of lines of output from CI.
>
> This might help to come up with a simple example to demonstrate Charlotte's conclusion that the source packages are installed in the wrong order. And that might also lead to a difference between parallel (options(Ncpus = 8), for example) versus serial (options(Ncpus = NULL)) builds...
>
> Thanks for your exhaustive work on this!
>
> Martin
>
> On 4/27/20, 2:03 AM, "Leonardo Collado Torres" <lcolladotor using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> EDIT: I found a general solution! (workaround?) I had written a
> response, but I had an idea, tested it and a few hours later I'm
> finishing this email. It does work... although not exactly as I
> intended it to.
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Thanks Martin for looking into this =)
>
> I'll respond to your question about making things complicated for myself.
>
>
> ## General scenario
>
> The general scenario is, I have a package say `newpkg`. `newpkg` has
> dependencies (imports, suggests and/or depends) on Bioconductor
> packages. I want to test that `newpkg` passes R CMD build, check &
> BiocCheck. To do so, we need all the dependencies of `newpkg`
> available including the "suggests" ones.
>
> If `newpkg` was already available from Bioconductor, I could install
> it using BiocManager::install("newpkg"). But that's not necessarily
> the case.**
>
> One could install the dependencies for `newpkg` manually, using
> BiocManager::install(), remotes, and/or install.packages(). But then,
> you need to adapt the code again for `newerpkg`, `oldpkg`, etc.
>
> Currently, either through remotes::install_deps() or through
> remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE) directly (the first
> calls the second
> https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/blob/5b3da5f852772159cc2a580888e10536a43e9199/R/install.R#L193)
> Charlotte and I are getting the list of packages that `newpkg` depends
> on, then either installing them through remotes or BiocManager. This
> is failing for both of us, though in theory (as far as I know) either
> should work. Is this something that could be fixed? I don't know.++
>
>
> ## GitHub Actions
>
> Ultimately in my case, I'm trying to build a GitHub Actions workflow
> that will work for any package with Bioconductor dependencies. I'm
> nearly there, it's just this last issue about the source-only BioC
> packages (annotation, experiment, workflow). I've been doing this
> since last week and through this process I discovered some issues with
> my own packages that were masked in the Bioconductor build machines.
> Many other packages are already installed in the Bioconductor build
> machines and on my laptop, so I hadn't noticed some missing "suggests"
> dependencies on some of my packages. For example
> https://github.com/leekgroup/recount/commit/f3bdb77d789f1a8364f16b71bd344fd23ecbfda5.
>
>
> ## Some possibilities to explore
>
> Maybe what we need is some other code to process the DESCRIPTION file
> of `newpkg`, extract the list of packages explicitly mentioned on
> DESCRIPTION (removing those that are base packages, say it's 10
> packages), then just install those direct dependencies (the 10
> packages) instead of all the packages listed in the DESCRIPTION and
> their dependencies (what you can get from remotes::dev_package_deps(),
> say 100 packages) and pass this smaller list of direct dependencies to
> BiocManager::install(). However, I suspect that it won't work either,
> because again, I'm expecting (maybe incorrectly) that
> BiocManager::install() figures out the right order in which to install
> either the short or long list of packages and this is currently
> failing for the long list.
>
> Another option might involve figuring out from the full list of
> dependencies (remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE) ), which
> ones are available only through source (maybe those available only
> through repos BioCann, BioCexp, BioCworkflows from
> BiocManager::repositories() ) and install those first, then install
> the remaining packages that exist in the BioCsoft and CRAN
> repositories. Maybe something like:
>
> ## This doesn't work since BiocManager::install() doesn't allow using
> the `repos` argument
> deps <- remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE)
> BiocManager::install(deps$package[deps$diff != 0], repos =
> BiocManager::repositories()[c('BioCann', 'BioCexp', 'BioCworkflows')]
> )
> BiocManager::install(deps$package[deps$diff != 0])
>
> ## This also doesn't work since all CRAN deps are missing at this point
> remotes::install_deps( repos =
> BiocManager::repositories()[c('BioCann', 'BioCexp', 'BioCworkflows')]
> )
> remotes::install_deps()
>
>
> ## But the above lead me a solution at
> https://github.com/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/blob/8695cbee49a01d1d297042232a1593e6c94f1b41/.github/workflows/check-bioc.yml#L139-L165.
> That is, install packages in waves: first the CRAN ones, then the BioC
> source-only ones, then the BioC software ones. Doing the installation
> in this order worked for several of my packages (as many as I could
> test tonight).
>
>
> message(paste('****', Sys.time(), 'installing BiocManager ****'))
> remotes::install_cran("BiocManager")
>
> message(paste('****', Sys.time(), 'installing CRAN dependencies ****'))
> remotes::install_deps(repos = BiocManager::repositories()['CRAN'])
>
> message(paste('****', Sys.time(), 'installing BioC source-only
> dependencies ****'))
> remotes::install_deps(repos = BiocManager::repositories()[c('BioCann',
> 'BioCexp', 'BioCworkflows')])
>
> message(paste('****', Sys.time(), 'installing remaining BioC
> dependencies ****'))
> deps <- remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE, repos =
> BiocManager::repositories())
> BiocManager::install(deps$package[deps$diff != 0])
>
>
> I added those messages so I could find these steps on the logs more
> easily and it works for Bioconductor's devel docker, macOS and Windows
> using R 4.0 and BioC 3.11.
>
> Here are the links to one log file (Windows):
>
> 1. BiocManager:
> https://github.com/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/runs/621120165?check_suite_focus=true#step:12:40
> 2. CRAN deps: https://github.com/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/runs/621120165?check_suite_focus=true#step:12:43
> (though hm... it does install many BioC ones, not sure why)
> 3. The BioC source-only deps:
> https://github.com/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/runs/621120165?check_suite_focus=true#step:12:1219
> (hm... doesn't install anything)
> 4. BioC remaining deps:
> https://github.com/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/runs/621120165?check_suite_focus=true#step:12:1222
> This is where TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene gets installed;
> GenomeInfoDbData and tibble are available for GenomicFeatures at this
> point, so no errors pop up. This step also installs a few other CRAN
> deps which I'm not sure why they didn't install before.
>
>
> Best,
> Leo
>
> ** Even if it was, you might not want to actually install the package
> `newpkg` from Bioconductor/CRAN since you likely want to test the very
> latest version of `newpkg` and avoid any false negative errors where
> everything seems to work, but your code is really just checking the
> latest release version (bioc-release or bioc-devel for BioC packages)
> instead of your development version.
>
> ++ Maybe it could be fixed by adding a explicit dependency on
> GenomicFeatures to both GenomeInfoDbData and tibble, though I'm not
> sure. But it seems like fixing the order in which packages are
> installed is the more general problem.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 5:53 PM Martin Morgan <mtmorgan.bioc using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I spent a bit of time not understanding why you were being so complicated -- BiocManager::install() finds all CRAN / Bioc dependencies, there's no need to use remotes at all and for debugging purposes it just seemed (still seems?) like you were making trouble for yourself.
>
> But eventually... I created a fake CRAN-style repository
>
> $ tree my_repo/
> my_repo/
> ├── bin
> │ └── macosx
> │ └── contrib
> │ └── 4.0
> │ └── PACKAGES
> └── src
> └── contrib
> └── PACKAGES
>
> The plain-text PACKAGES file is an index of the packages that are
> supposed to be available. So under the 'bin' tree I have
>
> ---
> Package: foo
> Version: 1.0.0
> NeedsCompilation: true
>
> Package: bar
> Version: 1.0.0
> Depends: foo
>
>
> Package: baz
> Version: 1.0.0
> Depends: bar
> ---
>
> baz depends on bar depends on foo, and binary versions are all at
> 1.0.0
>
> Under the src tree I have
>
> ---
> Package: foo
> Version: 1.0.1
> NeedsCompilation: true
>
> Package: bar
> Version: 1.0.0
> Depends: foo
>
>
> Package: baz
> Version: 1.0.0
> Depends: bar
> ```
> with a more recent src for foo at version 1.0.1. I guess this is (almost) the situation with GenomeInfoDbData / tibble.
>
> In an R session I have
>
> available.packages(repos="file:///tmp/my_repo/")
>
> Package Version Priority Depends Imports LinkingTo Suggests Enhances
> foo "foo" "1.0.1" NA NA NA NA NA NA
> bar "bar" "1.0.0" NA "foo" NA NA NA NA
> baz "baz" "1.0.0" NA "bar" NA NA NA NA
> License License_is_FOSS License_restricts_use OS_type Archs MD5sum
> foo NA NA NA NA NA NA
> bar NA NA NA NA NA NA
> baz NA NA NA NA NA NA
> NeedsCompilation File Repository
> foo "true" NA "file:///tmp/my_repo/src/contrib"
> bar NA NA "file:///tmp/my_repo/src/contrib"
> baz NA NA "file:///tmp/my_repo/src/contrib"
>
> I'll try to 'install' baz; it'll fail because there are no packages to install, but it's still informative...
>
> install.packages("baz", repos = "file:///tmp/my_repo")
>
> Installing package into '/Users/ma38727/Library/R/4.0/Bioc/3.11/library'
> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
> also installing the dependencies 'foo', 'bar'
>
>
> There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
> binary source needs_compilation
> foo 1.0.0 1.0.1 TRUE
>
> Do you want to install from sources the package which needs
> compilation? (Yes/no/cancel) yes Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, :
> package 'bar' does not exist on the local repository Warning in
> download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, :
> package 'baz' does not exist on the local repository installing the
> source package 'foo'
>
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, :
> package 'foo' does not exist on the local repository
>
> Note the order of downloads -- binaries first, then source as you
> found! (actually, this would 'work' because the binaries are installed
> without any test load, but in more complicated situations...)
>
> On the other hand, if I answer 'no' to install the more recent source
> packages I get
>
> There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
> binary source needs_compilation
> foo 1.0.0 1.0.1 TRUE
> Do you want to install from sources the package which needs
> compilation? (Yes/no/cancel) no Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, :
> package 'foo' does not exist on the local repository Warning in
> download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, :
> package 'bar' does not exist on the local repository Warning in
> download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, :
> package 'baz' does not exist on the local repository
>
> installing in the order required for dependencies.
>
> If I remove baz from the source repository, I get a similar order of events, with an additional prompt about installing 'baz' from source.
>
> I don't actually see, from the 'Binary packages' section of ?install.packages, how to get R to respond 'no' to the prompt to install the more recent source package foo, but still install the source-only package 'baz'...
>
> Of course this is transient, when there more recent source than binaries; my own installation of TxDb on macOS found a binary tibble as current as the source, and went without problem.
>
> Martin
>
> On 4/26/20, 4:48 PM, "Leonardo Collado Torres" <lcolladotor using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Charlotte, thank you very much! I didn't know about that issue on
> `remotes` and the fix attempts. Thank you for the info Martin!
>
> However, I have to report that it doesn't seem like switching from
> remotes::install_deps() to BiocManager::install() fixes the issue. I
> updated my GitHub Actions workflow to obtain the list of dependencies
> using remotes, but install them with BiocManager::install() instead of
> remotes::install_deps(). You can see this at
> https://github.com/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/blob/ea58939ac6bf13cae7d26951732914d96b5f7d07/.github/workflows/check-bioc.yml#L139-L149
> although I include the relevant lines of code below:
>
> ## Locate the package dependencies
> deps <- remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE)
>
> ## Install any that need to be updated using BiocManager to avoid
> ## the issues described at
> ## https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2020-April/016675.html
> ## https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/issues/296
> remotes::install_cran("BiocManager")
> BiocManager::install(deps$package[deps$diff != 0])
>
>
> This still leads to TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene failing to
> install because GenomeInfoDbData is not available on both macOS and
> Windows (again, this doesn't fail on the Bioconductor devel docker).
> Here's for example the error on Windows
> https://github.com/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/runs/620055131?check_suite_focus=true#step:12:1077.
> Immediately after, GenomeInfoDbData does get installed
> https://github.com/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/runs/620055131?check_suite_focus=true#step:12:1100
> and after it, tibble
> https://github.com/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/runs/620055131?check_suite_focus=true#step:12:1174.
>
> Likely this issue only happens on Windows and macOS because of the
> availability of some packages in source form and others in binary
> form, unlike only using source versions in the Bioconductor docker
> run. However, maybe I need some other code to get all the
> dependencies of a given package in a different order, though I was
> hoping that BiocManager::install() would find the right order for me
> as it seems to try to do so already.
>
> Charlotte linked to
> https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/commit/88f302fe53864e4f27fc7b3897718fea9a8b1fa9.
> So maybe there's still something else to try to fix in remotes and/or
> BiocManager instead of the DESCRIPTION files of other packages like I
> initially thought of in this thread and in
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2020-April/016671.html.
>
> Best,
> Leo
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:30 AM Martin Morgan <mtmorgan.bioc using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Charlotte for the detective work.
>
>
>
> Annotation packages (TxDb, org, BSgenome, and GenomeInfoDbData, for instance) are distributed only as source – this was a decision made quite a while (years) ago, to save disk space (some of these packages are large, and hosting macOS and Windows binaries in addition to source triple disk space requirements) and on the rationale that the packages do not have C-level source code so users do not need RTools or XCode (etc) to install from ‘source’. So in this context and in the face of a buggy remotes package, and installation of Bioconductor packages through non-standard approaches (BiocManager::install() for CRAN and Bioconductor packages and their dependencies use base R commands only) I guess the behavior you document is really an (ongoing?) bug in the remotes package?
>
>
>
> Over the years the distribution of source-only annotation packages has caused problems, in particular when (usually Windows) users have temporary or library paths with spaces or non-ASCII characters. I believe that this upstream bug (in R’s handling of Windows paths) has been fixed in the 4.0.0 release, but the details are quite complicated and I have not been able to follow the discussion fully.
>
>
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> From: Charlotte Soneson <charlottesoneson using gmail.com>
> Date: Sunday, April 26, 2020 at 5:32 AM
> To: Martin Morgan <mtmorgan.bioc using gmail.com>
> Cc: Leonardo Collado Torres <lcolladotor using gmail.com>, Bioc-devel
> <bioc-devel using r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] GenomicFeatures and/or
> TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene issue: missing tibble
>
>
>
> Hi Leo, Martin,
>
>
>
> it looks like this is related to an issue with the remotes package: https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/issues/296. It gets the installation order wrong, and tries to install source packages before binaries. This can be a problem with GenomeInfoDbData (which I think doesn’t have a binary, and which it looks like Leo is installing manually). The TxDb package also doesn’t seem to be available as a binary package, and currently the source package for tibble is newer than the Windows binary.
>
>
>
> According to the issue above, it should have been fixed in remotes v2.1.1 (https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/commit/88f302fe53864e4f27fc7b3897718fea9a8b1fa9). To try things out, I set up a minimal package with the only dependency being TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene (https://github.com/csoneson/testpkg), and checked it with GitHub Actions on macOS and Windows. It fails in both cases, since it’s trying to install TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene first (e.g. https://github.com/csoneson/testpkg/runs/619407291?check_suite_focus=true#step:7:533). If I depend instead on GenomicFeatures, everything builds fine (here we have a binary). It is using remotes v2.1.1 though, so perhaps this needs to be investigated further.
>
>
>
> Charlotte
>
>
>
> On 25 Apr 2020, at 22:20, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan.bioc using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> tibble is not a direct dependency of TxDb*.
>
>
> db = available.packages(repos = BiocManager::repositories()) deps =
> tools::package_dependencies("TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene", db)
> deps
>
> $TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene
> [1] "GenomicFeatures" "AnnotationDbi"
>
> but it is an indirect dependency
>
>
> deps =
> tools::package_dependencies("TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene", db,
> recursive=TRUE) "tibble" %in% unlist(deps)
>
> [1] TRUE
>
> I did
>
> deps1 =
> tools::package_dependencies("TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene", db,
> recursive=TRUE)
>
> deps2 = tools::package_dependencies("tibble", db, recursive=TRUE,
> reverse=TRUE)
>
> intersect(unlist(deps1), unlist(deps2))
> ## [1] "GenomicFeatures" "biomaRt" "BiocFileCache" "dbplyr"
> ## [5] "dplyr"
>
> I believe R checks for immediate dependencies, found all for TxDb* and
> GenomicFeatures available, and didn’t check further. I speculate that
> you removed tibble, or installed one of the packages in the above
> list, without satisfying the dependencies for that package. Or perhaps
> what the message is really trying to say is that it failed to load
> tibble (because it was installed in a previous version of the R
> toolchain?)
>
> It would be interesting to debug this further on your system, to understand the problem for other users.
>
> Martin
>
> On 4/25/20, 2:48 PM, "Bioc-devel on behalf of Leonardo Collado Torres" <bioc-devel-bounces using r-project.org on behalf of lcolladotor using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bioc-devel,
>
> I think that there's a potential issue with either GenomicFeatures,
> TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene or an upstream package.
>
>
> On a fresh R 4.0 Windows installation with BioC 3.11, I get the
> following error message when installing
> TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene as shown at
> https://github.com/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/runs/618370463?check_suite_focus=true#step:13:1225.
>
>
> 2020-04-25T18:32:26.0765748Z * installing *source* package
> 'TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene' ...
> 2020-04-25T18:32:26.0769789Z ** using staged installation
> 2020-04-25T18:32:26.1001400Z ** R
> 2020-04-25T18:32:26.1044734Z ** inst
> 2020-04-25T18:32:26.2061605Z ** byte-compile and prepare package for
> lazy loading
> 2020-04-25T18:32:30.7296724Z ##[error]Error: package or namespace load
> failed for 'GenomicFeatures' in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc,
> .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):
> 2020-04-25T18:32:30.7305615Z ERROR: lazy loading failed for package
> 'TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene'
> 2020-04-25T18:32:30.7306686Z * removing
> 'D:/a/_temp/Library/TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene'
> 2020-04-25T18:32:30.7307196Z there is no package called 'tibble'
> 2020-04-25T18:32:30.7310561Z ##[error]Error: package 'GenomicFeatures'
> could not be loaded
> 2020-04-25T18:32:30.7311805Z Execution halted
>
> From looking at the bioc-devel landing pages for both GenomicFeatures
> and TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene, I see that tibble is not listed
> as a dependency for either package.
>
> Best,
> Leo
>
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