My understanding is that plasFIA should be in the Suggests field (and not in Depends).
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:31 AM DELABRIÈRE Alexis <alexis.delabri...@cea.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > I hope that it is the good place to ask this, as it is related to > Bioconductor guidelines. > > I have an issue of package dependency, I'm developing a package for the > processing of mass spectrometry data(proFIA), it works on raw data which > are quite heave (6 cleaned files weight 50 mega), so I wanted to provide a > data package to test the functions(plasFIA) and build the vignettes. The > two package are finished but I have an issue following the Bioconductor > submission guidelines about submitting two packages, which require to > submit the package which does not depend of the other in first : > > My first package proFIA which is the processing package require plasFIA to > build the vignette. I used a preprocessed object in the example to avoid 3 > mins processing times in each examples, without that CHECK installation > will be too long. To access the visualization function, the raw data are > necessary, that's why the dependence to plasFIA is mandatory. > > My second package plasFIA contains the data and the processing files. In > data directory, there is an RData file which contain an object from proFIA > package of class "proFIAset" to store the information about the package. > The complicated part now : this object require a path to the raw file to > allows the visualization function to work. So in the .onLoad function I do > the following thing : > > .onLoad <- function(libname, pkgname) > { > #Finding and loading the RData object > pfile=file.path(find.package("plasFIA"), "data","plasSet.rda") > load(pfile) > #Creating the new paths to raw files in the meML directory. > nms <- file.path(system.file(package="plasFIA"),"mzML", > gsub("/", .Platform$file.sep, basename(attr(plasSet, > "classes")[,1]))) > #Setting the new paths > plasSet@classes[,1] <- nms > plasSet@path<-file.path(find.package("plasFIA"), "mzML") > #Saving the object. > save(plasSet,file=pfile) > } > > Which work, but if I don't put "proFIA" in depend "plasFIA" CHECK fails. > And if I put it I have a circular dependency. > > I know that a similar issue exists for "faahko" and "xcms" package in > Bioconductor, and I did not find a better solution. > > Do you know a solution to overcome the circular dependency or, is this > okay for BioConductor in this setup ? > > I just opened an issue in the contribution part or Bioconductor, so you > can go there to see the code. > > > Alexis Delabriere > PhD Student, > Laboratoire d'Analyse de Données et d'Intelligence des Systèmes, > CEA Saclay, > DRT/LIST/DM2I/LADIS > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel