[Bioc-devel] Pushing towards a better home for matrix generics

[Aaron Lun]

This is a resurrection of some old threads:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2017-November/012273.html

https://github.com/Bioconductor/MatrixGenerics/issues

For those who are unfamiliar with this, the basic issue is that various
Matrix and BiocGenerics functions mask each other. This is mildly
frustrating in interactive sessions:

> library(Matrix)
> library(DelayedArray)
> x <- rsparsematrix(10, 10, 0.1)
> colSums(x) # fails
> Matrix::colSums(x) # okay

... but quite annoying during package development, requiring code like
this:

if (is(x, "Matrix")) {
z <- Matrix::colSums(x)
} else {
z <- colSums(x) # assuming DelayedArray does the masking.
}

... which defeats the purpose of using S4 dispatch in the first place.

I have been encountering this issue with increasing frequency in my
packages, as a lot of my code base needs to be able to interface with
both Matrix and Bioconductor objects (e.g., DelayedMatrices) at the
same time. What needs to happen so that I can just write:

z <- colSums(x)

... and everything will work for both Matrix and Bioconductor classes?
It seems that many of these function names are implicit generics
anyway, can BiocGenerics take advantage of that for the time being?

Best,

Aaron

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Re: [Bioc-devel] update bioconductor package

[Turaga, Nitesh]

You need to have access to your repository at git.bioconductor.org.

http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/

You should find all of your documentation in that link.

Nitesh



> On Jan 27, 2019, at 2:50 AM, minoo ashtiani  wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> I would like to update my Bioconductor package named "IMMAN". I made some
> changes and I wanted to update the package on the Bioconductor repository
> too, but I don't know how can I do it. Any idea?
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> Minoo
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