[Bioc-devel] Cytoscape installed on bioc builders?

[Catherine Ross]

Hi Robert, Kozo,

Thank you both for your responses!

I’ve now set up a testable tryCatch for my Cytoscape-using function that returns NULL on connection fail error, rather than stopping the function completely.

Catherine

> On Mar 6, 2021, at 1:12 PM, Kozo Nishida <knishida using riken.jp> wrote:
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> Hi Catherine,
> 
> As far as I know, it is impossible.
> See the comments from Martin Morgan and Paul Shannon below
> https://github.com/Bioconductor/Contributions/issues/1513#issuecomment-644113558
> 
> I am maintaining a package for Cytoscape workflow (called transomics2cytoscape).
> I test it only on the local Desktop environment, not on the bioc builders.
> 
> RCy3 is also tested only on the local Desktop environment, not on the
> bioc builders.
> 
> I think that your fedup package can only be tested locally .
> (about the functions using Cytoscape.)
> 
> Kozo
> 
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> On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:36 AM 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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