I wrote a small gist
https://gist.github.com/mtmorgan/21e18991c6ebdb388e8828bcc0fe72f6
that queries for broken dependencies. Using two packages that have been
mentioned recently on this mailing list
> tbl <- deps_broken(c("EnrichmentBrowser", "GenomicScores"))
> tbl
# A tibble: 1 x 5
pkg dep install buildsrc checksrc
<fct> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
1 EnrichmentBrowser safe OK OK ERROR
> tbl %>% count(pkg, .drop=FALSE)
# A tibble: 2 x 2
pkg n
<fct> <int>
1 EnrichmentBrowser 1
2 GenomicScores 0
Trying to install 'safe' from public repositories fails
> BiocManager::install("safe")
Bioconductor version 3.12 (BiocManager 1.30.10), R 4.0.0 Patched (2020-05-14
r78465)
Installing package(s) 'safe'
Warning message:
package 'safe' is not available (for R version 4.0.0 Patched)
but it can be installed directly from git using the 'remotes' package
remotes::install_git(
"https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/safe";,
repos = BiocManager::repositories()
)
I do not think it would be a good idea for BiocManager::install(version =
"devel") to use a repository that included packages that installed but did not
build or check. One interpretation of the GenomicScores exchange is that it
helped alert the maintainer of gwascat about an error in their package, and
encouraged a prompt fix. Also BiocManager is really meant to help users follow
best practices, rather than to make Bioconductor developer's lives easier.
Perhaps there could be some other easy developer-oriented approach to
installing broken packages?
Martin
On 6/8/20, 10:20 PM, "Hervé Pagès" <hpa...@fredhutch.org> wrote:
On 6/5/20 07:52, Martin Morgan wrote:
> no, the build system should only propagate packages that have passed
build and check -- the goal is to make the life of the user easier and more
reliable, us developers have to sweat the details!
This makes a lot of sense for release but for devel maybe the criteria
for propagating a package could be relaxed? It doesn't sound too insane
to do that but I realize it does introduce a difference between release
and devel that could also cause its own confusion.
Another approach that is currently under consideration is to make
BiocManager::install() capable of installing/updating packages directly
from git.bioconductor.org in BioC devel. This could be achieved by
making the source tarballs resulting from
git checkout master https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/<pkg> &&
R CMD build --no-build-vignettes <pkg>
available in their own repo (e.g.
https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel) and add this repo to
BiocManager::repositories() in devel. Note that these no-vignettes
source tarballs are actually those used by the build system during the
INSTALL stage.
How do people feel about that?
H.
>
> Usually there is a single package that has changed and causes problems,
and like in the present case a little detective work (once one knows what to
look for) leads quickly to the suspect.
>
> Martin
>
> On 6/5/20, 10:18 AM, "Robert Castelo" <robert.cast...@upf.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks Martin, i wasn't aware about that fact. i've cloned the
gwascat
> repo and been able to directly install from the directory and
reproduce
> the error. in this case, this was easy because it involved just one
> package but with multiple broken package dependencies, i'd have to
> manually clone each of them and install them to reproduce the error.
>
> would it be a good idea in the devel build system to propagate the
tar
> ball resulting of
>
> R CMD build --no-build-vignettes
>
> so that we get automatically updates for at least those whose
problem is
> in the vignettes only?
>
> robert.
>
> On 05/06/2020 15:37, Martin Morgan wrote:
> > R CMD INSTALL <foo> or install.packages("foo", repos = NULL) on a
clone of the repository. A build might fail because the examples or vignette
fail to build, whereas for installation the only requirement is that the
package is syntactically correct.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > On 6/5/20, 7:58 AM, "Robert Castelo" <robert.cast...@upf.edu>
wrote:
> >
> > never thought about it this way, but how can the system
install
> > something that does not build?
> >
> > how should *i* install something that does not build to
reproduce the error?
> >
> > sorry if these are very naive questions!!
> >
> > robert.
> >
> > On 05/06/2020 13:34, Martin Morgan wrote:
> > > The build system installs the version of gwascat that is
available from git checkout (anticipating that this will propagate). gwascat
installs, but fails to pass check -- it is likely broken
> > >
> > >
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bioconductor.org_checkResults_devel_bioc-2DLATEST_gwascat_&d=DwIGaQ&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=uJnw6vW_sTWKb9l6DPFY7NEqPq_zkEzDFbIrir-Xis8&s=r_GJJMDdjgc6nXTDSC0OhJW6gho041eSiWwKrw3h00w&e=
> > >
> > > in a way that causes your package to fail
> > >
> > > Martin
> > >
> > > On 6/5/20, 6:27 AM, "Bioc-devel on behalf of Robert
Castelo" <bioc-devel-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of robert.cast...@upf.edu>
wrote:
> > >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > my package GenomicScores is not building, see:
> > >
> > >
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bioconductor.org_checkResults_devel_bioc-2DLATEST_GenomicScores_malbec1-2Dbuildsrc.html&d=DwIGaQ&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=uJnw6vW_sTWKb9l6DPFY7NEqPq_zkEzDFbIrir-Xis8&s=-TxA290vxOPuMjHcxETokMk-jPL8H_YJpKMIr3UL50E&e=
> > >
> > > apparently, it is breaking in the following lines of
its vignette:
> > >
> > > library(gwascat)
> > > data(ebicat37)
> > >
> > > which in the report from the bioc build machine says:
> > >
> > > gwascat loaded. Use makeCurrentGwascat() to extract
current image.
> > > from EBI. The data folder of this package has some
legacy extracts.
> > > Quitting from lines 404-408 (GenomicScores.Rmd)
> > > Error: processing vignette 'GenomicScores.Rmd' failed
with diagnostics:
> > > object 'ebicat37' not found
> > > --- failed re-building ‘GenomicScores.Rmd’
> > >
> > > however, in my installation of current bioc-devel on
R-4.0 with all
> > > packages up to date, GenomicScores builds fine and i
cannot reproduce
> > > this error. below you can find my session information
after the previous
> > > two instructions. the logs of 'gwascat' show changes
in May 2nd that
> > > could be potentially responsible for this but the fact
is that 'gwascat'
> > > is not building either and it does not seem that the
changes propagate
> > > through the build system, its version is still 2.21.0,
on which
> > > GenomicScores built without problems for the current
release.
> > >
> > > i'm cc'ing this email to Vince, as maintainer of
'gwascat', in case he
> > > has some more specific suggestion about this but any
hint will be
> > > greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > thanks!!
> > >
> > > sessionInfo()
> > > R version 4.0.0 (2020-04-24)
> > > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> > > Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
> > >
> > > Matrix products: default
> > > BLAS: /opt/R/R-4.0.0/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
> > > LAPACK: /opt/R/R-4.0.0/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so
> > >
> > > locale:
> > > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> > > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF8
> > > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF8
> > > [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF8 LC_NAME=C
> > > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> > > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> > >
> > > attached base packages:
> > > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets
methods base
> > >
> > > other attached packages:
> > > [1] gwascat_2.21.0 colorout_1.2-2
> > >
> > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > > [1] Rcpp_1.0.4.6 lattice_0.20-41
> > > [3] prettyunits_1.1.1 Rsamtools_2.5.1
> > > [5] Biostrings_2.57.1 assertthat_0.2.1
> > > [7] digest_0.6.25 BiocFileCache_1.13.0
> > > [9] R6_2.4.1 GenomeInfoDb_1.25.1
> > > [11] stats4_4.0.0 RSQLite_2.2.0
> > > [13] httr_1.4.1 ggplot2_3.3.1
> > > [15] pillar_1.4.4 zlibbioc_1.35.0
> > > [17] rlang_0.4.6 GenomicFeatures_1.41.0
> > > [19] progress_1.2.2 curl_4.3
> > > [21] blob_1.2.1 S4Vectors_0.27.11
> > > [23] Matrix_1.2-18 BiocParallel_1.23.0
> > > [25] stringr_1.4.0 RCurl_1.98-1.2
> > > [27] bit_1.1-15.2 biomaRt_2.45.0
> > > [29] munsell_0.5.0 DelayedArray_0.15.1
> > > [31] compiler_4.0.0 rtracklayer_1.49.3
> > > [33] pkgconfig_2.0.3 askpass_1.1
> > > [35] BiocGenerics_0.35.3 openssl_1.4.1
> > > [37] tidyselect_1.1.0 SummarizedExperiment_1.19.4
> > > [39] tibble_3.0.1 GenomeInfoDbData_1.2.3
> > > [41] IRanges_2.23.7 matrixStats_0.56.0
> > > [43] XML_3.99-0.3 crayon_1.3.4
> > > [45] dplyr_1.0.0 dbplyr_1.4.4
> > > [47] GenomicAlignments_1.25.1 bitops_1.0-6
> > > [49] rappdirs_0.3.1 grid_4.0.0
> > > [51] gtable_0.3.0 lifecycle_0.2.0
> > > [53] DBI_1.1.0 magrittr_1.5
> > > [55] scales_1.1.1 stringi_1.4.6
> > > [57] XVector_0.29.1 ellipsis_0.3.1
> > > [59] generics_0.0.2 vctrs_0.3.0
> > > [61] tools_4.0.0 bit64_0.9-7
> > > [63] Biobase_2.49.0 glue_1.4.1
> > > [65] purrr_0.3.4 hms_0.5.3
> > > [67] parallel_4.0.0 colorspace_1.4-1
> > > [69] AnnotationDbi_1.51.0 GenomicRanges_1.41.3
> > > [71] memoise_1.1.0
> > >
> > >
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