[BioC] Ringo: Error in preprocess() with R-2.7.0, but not with R-2.5.0

Ulrike Goebel ugoebel at mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
Fri Jul 4 11:02:07 CEST 2008


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Subject: Re: [BioC] Ringo: Error in preprocess() with R-2.7.0,	but not with 
R-2.5.0
Date: Friday 04 July 2008 11:00
From: Ulrike Goebel <ugoebel at mpiz-koeln.mpg.de>
To: Joern Toedling <toedling at ebi.ac.uk>

Hi Joern,

thanks for your suggestion .. but this didn't help: I'm still getting the
 same error.

Trying to trace it back, I found that it is generated in backgroundCorrect
debug: res <- .Internal(optim(par, fn1, gr1, method, con, lower, upper))

Stack trace:

where 1: optim(par = c(mu, log(sigma), log(alpha)), fn =
normexp.m2loglik.saddle,
    control = list(trace = as.integer(trace)), x = x)
where 2: switch(method, saddle = optim(par = c(mu, log(sigma), log(alpha)),
    fn = normexp.m2loglik.saddle, control = list(trace = as.integer(trace)),
    x = x), neldermean = optim(par = c(mu, log(sigma), log(alpha)),
    fn = normexp.m2loglik, control = list(trace = as.integer(trace)),
    x = x), bfgs = optim(par = c(mu, log(sigma), log(alpha)),
    fn = normexp.m2loglik, gr = normexp.grad, method = c("BFGS"),
    control = list(trace = as.integer(trace)), x = x))
where 3: normexp.fit(x, method = method)
where 4: backgroundCorrect(RG$G - RG$Gb, method = method, verbose = verbose)
where 5: switch(method, subtract = {
  [lines omitted]
where 6: backgroundCorrect(myRG, method = "normexp", offset = 50)
where 7: preprocess(test2[test2$genes$Status == "Probe", ], method = "loess",
    returnMAList = TRUE, bc.method = "none")

I realize that preprocess is using backgroundCorrect(myRG, method =
 "normexp", offset = 50), without a way to change the correction method.
 Actually, in my datasets (and generally in NimbleGen data ?), the MM probes
 are not used, and the corresponding column is all-zero. So why at all would
 one want to apply a background correction method ?

What I still don't understand is that the problem is happening only with this
one array (I can't see anything special with it) ...

Greetings & thanks for the quick answer !

Ulrike

On Thursday 03 July 2008 18:16, you wrote:
> Hi Ulrike,
> I cannot be sure but I guess the problem is related these warnings in
> 2.5.0, which indicated that there was already something amiss back then.
>
> > Warning messages:
> > 1: NaNs produced in: log(x)
> > 2: NaNs produced in: log(x)
>
> Which probes produce the NaN values? It could be the "Random" ones.
> Unless there is a good reason, why you want to keep these control probes
> that do not match the genome in your data for further analyses, I would
> suggest to drop them before preprocessing.
>
> loess_test <- preprocess(test[test$genes$Status=="Probe",],
> method="loess",returnMAList=TRUE)
>
>
> If you want to keep the Random probes, maybe you should discard only
> those that have missing values already in the RGList.
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Joern
>
> Ulrike Goebel wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > I find that I cannot normalize one (of several) NimbleGen files in
> > R-2.7.0 (using the preprocess() function of package Ringo), while I did
> > normalize this dataset successfully before with R-2.5.0.  I guess this is
> > not even a problem of Ringo, but rather of normalizeWithinArrays (and
> > thus of limma), or ?
> >
> > Here is what I get with R.2.7.0 (and also with R.6.0, not shown):
> >> test <- readNimblegen("TFL2HA.txt", "spottypes.txt", path=dir[[2]])
> >
> > Reading targets file...
> > Reading raw intensities...
> > Read header information
> > Read 127612_532.pair
> > Read 127612_635.pair
> > Read 1276122_532.pair
> > Read 1276122_635.pair
> > Determining probe categories...
> > Matching patterns for: GENE_EXPR_OPTION PROBE_ID
> > Found 385991 Probe
> > Found 0 Negative
> > Found 0 H_Code
> > Found 0 V_Code
> > Found 3316 Random
> > Setting attributes: values Color
> >
> >> loess_test <- preprocess(test, method="loess",returnMAList=TRUE )
> >
> > Background correction...
> > Green channel
> > Corrected array 1
> > Error in if (all(abs(delta) < 1e-10)) break :
> >   missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> >
> > R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
> > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >
> > locale:
> > LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UT
> >F-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;L
> >C_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] splines   tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
> > [8] methods   base
> >
> > other attached packages:
> >  [1] Ringo_1.4.0          SparseM_0.77         RColorBrewer_1.0-2
> >  [4] vsn_3.6.0            affy_1.18.0          preprocessCore_1.2.0
> >  [7] affyio_1.8.0         limma_2.14.1         geneplotter_1.18.0
> > [10] annotate_1.18.0      xtable_1.5-2         AnnotationDbi_1.2.0
> > [13] RSQLite_0.6-8        DBI_0.2-4            lattice_0.17-6
> > [16] genefilter_1.20.0    survival_2.34-1      Biobase_2.1.7
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] grid_2.7.0         KernSmooth_2.22-22
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >---------------------------------- .. and this is with R.2.5.0
> >
> >> test <- readNimblegen("TFL2HA.txt", "spottypes.txt", path=dir[[2]])
> >
> > Reading targets file...
> > Reading raw intensities...
> > Read header information
> > Read 127612_532.pair
> > Read 127612_635.pair
> > Read 1276122_532.pair
> > Read 1276122_635.pair
> > Determining probe categories...
> > Matching patterns for: GENE_EXPR_OPTION PROBE_ID
> > Found 385991 Probe
> > Found 0 Negative
> > Found 0 H_Code
> > Found 0 V_Code
> > Found 3316 Random
> > Setting attributes: values Color
> >
> >> loess_test <- preprocess(test, method="loess",returnMAList=TRUE )
> >
> > Background correction...
> > Corrected array 1
> > Corrected array 2
> > Normalizing...
> > Warning messages:
> > 1: NaNs produced in: log(x)
> > 2: NaNs produced in: log(x)
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> >
> > R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
> > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >
> > locale:
> > LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UT
> >F-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;L
> >C_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIF
> >ICATION=C
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] "tools"     "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
> > "datasets" [7] "methods"   "base"
> >
> > other attached packages:
> >        Ringo RColorBrewer          vsn         affy       affyio
> > limma "1.0.0"      "1.0-2"      "2.2.0"     "1.14.2"      "1.4.1"
> > "2.10.5" geneplotter      lattice     annotate      Biobase
> >     "1.14.0"     "0.15-4"     "1.14.1"     "1.14.1"
> >
> >
> > Best, Ulrike

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  Dr. Ulrike Goebel
  Bioinformatics Support
  Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
  Carl-von-Linne Weg 10
  50829 Cologne
  Germany
  +49(0) 221 5062 121

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-- 
  Dr. Ulrike Goebel
  Bioinformatics Support
  Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
  Carl-von-Linne Weg 10
  50829 Cologne
  Germany
  +49(0) 221 5062 121



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