[BioC] arrayQualityMetrics error

Paulo Nuin nuin at genedrift.org
Thu Feb 10 21:11:19 CET 2011


Hi Wolfgang

Thanks a lot for your message. I was able to install this version, both on a release version and on a devel version of R, but I'm running into an error again:

> arrayQualityMetrics(rawAffyData, outdir="quality", force=T)
The report will be written into directory 'quality'. 
Error in X11(paste("png::", filename, sep = ""), width, height, pointsize,  : 
  unable to start device PNG
In addition: Warning message:
In png(file = nameimg, h = h * dpi, w = w * dpi) :
  unable to open connection to X11 display ''

Here are the capabilities

> capabilities()
    jpeg      png     tiff    tcltk      X11     aqua http/ftp  sockets 
    TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE    FALSE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE 
  libxml     fifo   cledit    iconv      NLS  profmem    cairo 
    TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE 


Both versions are the same. I don't know if the error is due to X11 being FALSE. I don't understand why X11 is showing as FALSE, as the binaries were compiled with the --with-x flag, and at the end of configure we got

  Interfaces supported:      X11
  External libraries:        readline
  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, TIFF, NLS, cairo
  Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling

All X11 (xorg-devel) libraries are installed.

Thanks again for the help.

Cheers
Paulo


 

On 2011-02-10, at 1:26 PM, Wolfgang Huber wrote:

> Dear Paulo
> 
> there have been many improvements on the package since the last release, and I would recommend trying the devel version >=3.4.8
> 
> http://bioconductor.org/help/bioc-views/2.8/bioc/html/arrayQualityMetrics.html
> 
> which afaIcs will run well on R 2.12. One of the advantages is that it uses Simon Urbanek's "Cairo" package, which brings its own cairo library rather than relying on what it finds on the host system [1] - this should solve your problem.
> 
> The package is in a state of beta-testing, with
> - the presentation of the outlier detection in the reports not yet fully cooked,
> - and I am not yet sure whether & how well it works on 64bit Windows.
> 
> I hope to finalise this within a week or three; any user experiences and comments are welcome.
> 
> A sneal preview of the new reports is here [2].
> 
> 	Wolfgang
> 
> 
> [1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/attachments/20110128/ca068c82/attachment.pl
> [2] http://www-huber.embl.de/users/whuber/pub/Report%20for%20nCCl4%20with%20RIN
> 
> 
> Paulo Nuin scripsit 10/02/11 02:10:
>> Hi James
>> 
>> I checked our Cairo version, and it seems quite old. I'm checking the best way to update, as we are using CentOS official package. If the problem persists after upgrade, I will report to the list.
>> 
>> Thanks a lot for your help.
>> 
>> Paulo
>> 
>> 
>> On 2011-02-09, at 4:03 PM, James F. Reid wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Paulo,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 02/09/2011 09:38 PM, Paulo Nuin wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone
>>>> 
>>>> We just got a new HPC system to speed up our analysis, but we are having some problems with the end part of a arrayQualityMetrics run.
>>>> 
>>>> It goes fine until section 5, were it is interrupted by an error
>>>> 
>>>>> arrayQualityMetrics(rawAffyData, outdir="quality", force=T)
>>>> The report will be written into directory 'quality'.
>>>> [[1]]
>>>> 
>>>> [[2]]
>>>> 
>>>> [[3]]
>>>> 
>>>> [[4]]
>>>> 
>>>> Error in UseMethod("xmlAttrs", node) :
>>>>   no applicable method for 'xmlAttrs' applied to an object of class "NULL"
>>>> In addition: There were 39 warnings (use warnings() to see them)
>>> 
>>> The same happened on my system, the problem was a very old version of cairo, see this thread:
>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2010-October/036143.html
>>> Either upgrade if you can or try using the devel version which I believe detects the capabilites of the system before running and producing annotated svg figures or not.
>>> 
>>> HTH,
>>> James.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Our sessionInfo and capabilities are below. R is compiled natively and most of the required libraries are present and compiled with the system. Any help is appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Paulo
>>>> 
>>>>> capabilities()
>>>>     jpeg      png     tiff    tcltk      X11     aqua http/ftp  sockets
>>>>     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE
>>>>   libxml     fifo   cledit    iconv      NLS  profmem    cairo
>>>>     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
>>>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>>> 
>>>> locale:
>>>>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>>>>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>>>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>>>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>> 
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>> 
>>>> other attached packages:
>>>> [1] hgu133plus2cdf_2.7.0      arrayQualityMetrics_3.2.4
>>>> [3] vsn_3.18.0                affyPLM_1.26.0
>>>> [5] preprocessCore_1.12.0     gcrma_2.22.0
>>>> [7] affy_1.28.0               Biobase_2.10.0
>>>> 
>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>>  [1] affyio_1.18.0        annotate_1.28.0      AnnotationDbi_1.12.0
>>>>  [4] beadarray_2.0.3      Biostrings_2.18.2    DBI_0.2-5
>>>>  [7] genefilter_1.32.0    grid_2.12.1          hwriter_1.3
>>>> [10] IRanges_1.8.8        KernSmooth_2.23-4    lattice_0.19-13
>>>> [13] latticeExtra_0.6-14  limma_3.6.9          marray_1.28.0
>>>> [16] RColorBrewer_1.0-2   RSQLite_0.9-4        simpleaffy_2.26.1
>>>> [19] splines_2.12.1       stats4_2.12.1        survival_2.36-2
>>>> [22] SVGAnnotation_0.7-2  tools_2.12.1         XML_3.2-0
>>>> [25] xtable_1.5-6
>>>> 
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