Re: [Bioc-devel] data extension preference

2023-01-04 Thread Hervé Pagès
Agree with Lori. If you have tabulated data, csv is better than rda because it's plain text and can easily be imported by many software, not just R. People can also use an editor or command line tool like grep or head to inspect the file. OTOH rda/rds files are R specific so can only be used

Re: [Bioc-devel] Large vignettes

2023-01-04 Thread Vincent Carey
I am glad you brought this up here, and I welcome further discussion on this mailing list. It is important to understand the constraints on development that arise from Bioconductor's package guidelines. I don't think we want to change the limits on package payload size without understanding the

Re: [Bioc-devel] Large vignettes

2023-01-04 Thread Lambda Moses
Hi Adam, I also got this problem, and I would like some input from Bioc Core Team. I worked around it by writing a minimal vignette in the main branch. Then I made a documentation branch, where I have the same code as in main branch, but with more elaborate vignettes used to build a pkgdown

Re: [Bioc-devel] Bioc-devel Digest, Vol 226, Issue 3

2023-01-04 Thread Lambda Moses
Hi Adam, I also got this problem, and I would like some input from Bioc Core Team. I worked around it by writing a minimal vignette in the main branch. Then I made a documentation branch, where I have the same code as in main branch, but with more elaborate vignettes used to build a pkgdown

Re: [Bioc-devel] Bioconductor data packages containing very large files

2023-01-04 Thread Kern, Lori
A package cannot be that large directly. Please see information on creating an ExperimentHub package to provide the data for use in the package: https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/HubPub/inst/doc/CreateAHubPackage.html Cheers, Lori Shepherd - Kern Bioconductor Core

[Bioc-devel] Bioconductor data packages containing very large files

2023-01-04 Thread Heery Richard
Hi Bioconductor, I have made a database that is 27 GB that I would like to share as part of a Bioconductor package and I was just wondering if it is possible to submit very large files like this to Bioconductor or if there may be any alternative ways of sharing the file as part of a package?