[BioC] BHC appears to be broken

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Joseph Viviano <vivianoj at yorku.ca> wrote:
> <mailto:bioconductor at r-project.org>Hello all,
>
> I am having a great deal of trouble getting BHC to run on non-trivial
> datasets. I am using the following commands:
>
> data           <- read.csv("data.csv")

Can you share this dataset, or at least enough of it to reproduce the problem?

> itemLabels <- names(data)
> timePoints <- 1:24 # for the time-course case
>
> nDataItems <- nrow(data) # this equals 152000, approximately
> nFeatures  <- ncol(data)   # this equals 24
>
> BHC_OUT <- bhc(data,itemLabels,timePoints"time-course",verbose=TRUE)

This line produces a syntax error.

In order to help you we need a fully reproducible example. Also,
please send the output of the sessionInfo() command.

Dan


>
> ---
>
> This causes R to immediately lock up on windows 7, linux mint 13, and
> OSX 10.6.8. The input data are variance normalized time-series exported
> from MATLAB.
>
> Here is a sample timeseries from the .csv:
>
> -1.7858,-0.26742,0.37038,-0.87986,-0.55435,-0.89642,-1.2815,-0.62659,-0.98028,-1.0542,-1.0058,0.51103,0.90252,2.5272,-0.3048,0.81275,0.22414,0.15235,-0.20437,0.2545,0.95103,1.4214,0.82618,0.77179
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers, Joseph
>
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