[BioC] Using Rscript to run DEXSeq on Linux cluster

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi Chris,

Quick question: does the script only bomb when its running on a cluster node?

I mean, does the script run normally if you run it from your own/local machine?

Can you run a more mundane Rscript file from the cluster?

-steve

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Christopher T Gregg
<chris.gregg at neuro.utah.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have been running DEXSeq on our linux cluster.  To submit jobs to compute nodes we generate a shell script that calls on R to run a file that contains all of the commands to complete the DEXSeq analysis.  The command file has been tested on the cluster through an interactive session using R and works fine within R.  However, when we evoke Rscript to run at the command line or in a shell script we get the following error:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> $Rscript /path/to/DEXSeq_script.R
>
> $ cat DEXseq.e136397
> Loading required package: Biobase
>
> Welcome to Bioconductor
>
>  Vignettes contain introductory material. To view, type
>  'browseVignettes()'. To cite Bioconductor, see
>  'citation("Biobase")' and for packages 'citation("pkgname")'.
>
> Execution halted
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I would appreciate any thoughts as to why the Rscript approach fails to run DEXSeq from the command line.
>
> Note that we have worked around this problem by running R in an interactive job through Screen on the cluster and this has been a good solution.
>
> Thank you!
>
> best wishes,
> Chris
>
>
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Steve Lianoglou
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