[Bioc-devel] Cytoscape installed on bioc builders?

[Robert M. Flight]

Hi Catherine,

If I recall correctly, the builders are headless (i.e. they don't
have displays attached), and Cytoscape does require a display to run.

Anything in my vignette that required Cytoscape I cached the images and
then inserted them into the vignette, I think I had a function that would
check if Cytoscape was available, and insert the static images if it wasn't

push_graph <- try(
  {
    # borrowed from createNetworkFromDataFrames
    nodes <- data.frame(id=c("node 0","node 1","node 2","node 3"),
           stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
    edges <- data.frame(source=c("node 0","node 0","node 0","node 2"),
           target=c("node 1","node 2","node 3","node 3"),
           stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
    RCy3::createNetworkFromDataFrames(nodes,edges)
  }
)
if (inherits(push_graph, "try-error")) {
  runCy <- FALSE
  print("No connection to Cytoscape available, subsequent visualizations
were not run")
} else {
  runCy <- TRUE
}

if "runCy" is FALSE from above code, the chunk will grab the previously
generated image instead.

Your only bet for testing Cytoscape functionality I believe is what you can
do locally, either on your direct machine or via a virtual machine.

Hope that helps,

-Robert

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On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 6:36 PM Catherine Ross <
catherinem.ross using mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Hi bioc-devel,
>
> My package contains a function that requires Cytoscape.
> For this function to run, I need to have Cytoscape installed and open on
> my computer.
> https://github.com/rosscm/fedup/blob/main/R/femap.R
>
> This poses an issue when attempting to test the function since I can’t
> control Cytoscape on the bioc builders, so I can’t test the function at all.
>
> Is it possible to have Cytoscape installed on the builders to be able to
> run such tests?
>
> Catherine
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