On 11/14/14, 9:20 AM, Laurent Gatto wrote:
Dear January,
On 14 November 2014 10:51, January Weiner wrote:
Dear all,
I am building my first Bioconductor package and, before wasting
everyone's time with a faulty submission, I would like to clarify
certain things.
1) The package seems to fulfill the requirements of the Bioconductor
Package Guidelines and passes all checks except one "consideration":
CONSIDER: Indenting lines with a multiple of 4 spaces;
I love to indent my code with 2 spaces, is it a problem? Or do I have
to reformat all code before release? This is doable, but it would
complicate my workflow and if I am allowed to avoid it, I will. I see
that not all Bioconductor packages stick to this formatting (many even
use tabs instead of spaces).
I don't think this is a reason for rejection, as long as all other
aspects of the formatting are fine (for instance miles-long lines).
Emacs and RStudio both have 2 spaces as the default, so you will be in
good company. My own package is not even internally consistent, as it
contains code written by multiple people, all using text editors with
different indentation defaults. Sometimes I get the urge to go through
the (many) .R files and reformat it all, but it never makes it to the
top of the to-do list.
2) Another problem I have is the testing package on other platforms. I
do not have a Windows machine to test my package. Could someone help
me and test my package (build, check and BiocCheck) on Windows and
MacOS? Otherwise -- how do you check your packages? You keep an up to
date R development environment on three platforms?
As mentioned by Julian, you could use http://win-builder.r-project.org/
for Windows. But I don't think you are expected to check it on all
platforms before submission. If your package contains straightforward R
code, there is no reason to anticipate issues on other platforms.
I don't have a Windows machine either, so I rely on the Bioc build
system to alert me if something goes wrong on Windows but not the other
platforms.
Stephanie
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