Re: [Bioc-devel] Question

2018-08-18 Thread Michael Lawrence
Another concern with kent utils (as opposed to kent lib) is the non-open-source licensing. Michael On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Tim Triche, Jr. wrote: > Vince beat me to it. Don’t use Kent utils unless you have to. If you have > something like a bigBed parser, I could perhaps help clean

Re: [Bioc-devel] Question

2018-08-18 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
Vince beat me to it. Don’t use Kent utils unless you have to. If you have something like a bigBed parser, I could perhaps help clean it up. But if you’re doing anything that could possibly be done in Rsamtools or rtracklayer, I would join Vince in urging you to use their functions. You will

Re: [Bioc-devel] Question

2018-08-18 Thread Vincent Carey
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 12:17 PM, Ghiwa Khalil wrote: > Hello, > > We are writing a package with 2 main functions, one of these functions > requires kent utils to be installed. > > Since kent utils is supported by only specific operating systems, is it > recommended to have it in an R package? >

[Bioc-devel] Question

2018-08-18 Thread Ghiwa Khalil
Hello, We are writing a package with 2 main functions, one of these functions requires kent utils to be installed. Since kent utils is supported by only specific operating systems, is it recommended to have it in an R package? If we remove this function then our package will only be based on