[Bioc-devel] Proof-of-concept parallel preloading FastqStreamer

2013-09-30 Thread Ryan
, the child is always a step or two ahead of the main script, so that whenever the main script asks for the next yield, it gets it immediately instead of waiting for the child to read from the disk. So, is this kind of feature appropriate for inclusion into BioConductor? -Ryan Thompson

[Bioc-devel] New pvectorize implementation

2013-10-03 Thread Ryan
deal more straightforward than before. To support the multi-argument bpvectorize, I also added a function bpmvec, which is to bpvec as bpmapply is to bplapply. -Ryan ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel: Best standards for passing locally assigned variables/functions, e.g. a bpExport()?

2013-11-03 Thread Ryan
tryCatch to at least provide a more informative error message when a subprocess has a missing variable. -Ryan withBPExtraErrorText - function(expr) { tryCatch({ expr }, simpleError = function(err) { if (grepl(^object '(.*)' not found$, err$message, perl=TRUE

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel: Best standards for passing locally assigned variables/functions, e.g. a bpExport()?

2013-11-03 Thread Ryan
Another potential easy step we can do is that if FUN function in the user's workspace, we automatically export that function under the same name in the children. This would make recursive functions just work, but it might be a bit too magical. On 11/3/13, 2:38 PM, Ryan wrote: Here's an easy

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel: Best standards for passing locally assigned variables/functions, e.g. a bpExport()?

2013-11-03 Thread Ryan
PM, Ryan r...@thompsonclan.org mailto:r...@thompsonclan.org wrote: Another potential easy step we can do is that if FUN function in the user's workspace, we automatically export that function under the same name in the children. This would make recursive functions just work

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel: Best standards for passing locally assigned variables/functions, e.g. a bpExport()?

2013-11-03 Thread Ryan
a function refers to something in the global env. On Sun Nov 3 21:14:29 2013, Gabriel Becker wrote: Ryan (et al), FYI: f function() { x = rnorm(x) x } findGlobals(f) [1] = { rnorm x should be in the list of globals but it isn't. ~G sessionInfo() R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) Platform

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel: Best standards for passing locally assigned variables/functions, e.g. a bpExport()?

2013-11-04 Thread Ryan
, so I never have to worry about things being undefined in the forked subprocess. Therefore I cant really dogfood any of the stuff that might be implemented as a result of this thread. -Ryan On Mon Nov 4 03:48:23 2013, Michael Lawrence wrote: So what is the best practice for ensuring

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel: Best standards for passing locally assigned variables/functions, e.g. a bpExport()?

2013-11-04 Thread Ryan
. -Ryan ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel

Re: [Bioc-devel] Trying to reduce the memory overhead when using mclapply

2013-11-14 Thread Ryan
The minimize the additional memory used by mclapply, remember that mclapply works by forking processes, and the advantage of this is that as long as an object is not modified in either the parent or child, they will share the memory for that object, which effectively means that a child process

Re: [Bioc-devel] subread-buildindex fails on genome with many scaffolds?

2013-11-26 Thread Ryan
Ok, sorry to bother you. I'll ask my cluster admin for an update. On Tue Nov 26 17:24:34 2013, Wei Shi wrote: Hi Ryan, It seems you are using a quite old version of Subread. The latest version of SourceForge Subread is 1.4.2 and the latest version of bioc Rsubread is 1.12.3. These indexing

Re: [Bioc-devel] Subsetting Lists by Lists

2014-04-01 Thread Ryan
That won't work if any vector has fewer than 5 elements. Maybe lapply(x, head, n=5) would work? On Tue Apr 1 09:24:51 2014, Cook, Malcolm wrote: in the mean time, lapply(`[`,x,IntegerList(1:5)) ?? -Original Message- From: bioc-devel-boun...@r-project.org

Re: [Bioc-devel] Additional summarizeOverlaps counting modes for ChIP-Seq

2014-05-01 Thread Ryan
strand info for all reads because the reads must be directionally extended, which requires strand info. Ditto for counting the 5-prime and 3-prime ends. -Ryan chipseq - function(features, reads, ignore.strand=FALSE, inter.feature=TRUE, type=any, maxgap=0L, minoverlap=1L, width=NULL, fix

Re: [Bioc-devel] GenomicFiles reducer and iterate argument

2014-06-15 Thread Ryan
these two arguments expect different things than this one argument expects a different thing depending on the value of another argument. -Ryan On Sun Jun 15 11:17:59 2014, Michael Lawrence wrote: I just thought there is some benefit for the callback to be the same, regardless of the iterate setting

Re: [Bioc-devel] Distinction between release and devel package websites

2014-07-22 Thread Ryan
I just want to add the perspective that I often browse package documentation vignettes from the website rather than accessing it from the R command line. Sometimes it's just easier or more convenient to view it in a browser. So, when doing this, I sometimes accidentally get the wrong

Re: [Bioc-devel] Additional summarizeOverlaps counting modes for ChIP-Seq

2014-08-06 Thread Ryan
() with a '...' will pass the arguments down; they continue to be passed down until they are explicitly stated in a function signature (e.g., 'width' and 'fix' in ResizeReads()). Valerie On 08/06/2014 11:35 AM, Ryan wrote: Ok, I had a look at the code, and I think understand now. The help text

Re: [Bioc-devel] Parallel processing of reads in a single fastq file

2014-08-06 Thread Ryan
my solution also doesn't generalize to multi-step parallel pipelines. Thanks, Jeff -Ryan ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel

[Bioc-devel] Error in citation info for SPAN.UPC

2015-02-06 Thread Ryan
. Thanks, -Ryan Thompson [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel

Re: [Bioc-devel] requirement for named assays in SummarizedExperiment

2015-03-12 Thread Ryan
Yes, a single-assay SummarizedExperiment would be the most common case for unnamed assays. But I think at the very least there should be a warning on unnamed assays. On 3/12/15 9:24 AM, Martin Morgan wrote: On 03/12/2015 08:12 AM, Tim Triche, Jr. wrote: What he said This doesn't make any

Re: [Bioc-devel] Multiple colData in SummarizedExperiment

2015-06-17 Thread Ryan
Oh wow, I didn't know you could put a DataFrame into a single column of another DataFrame. That actually solves a problem for me too (I don't intend to expose nested DataFrames to the users though). On 6/17/15 7:23 PM, Martin Morgan wrote: On 06/17/2015 11:41 AM, davide risso wrote: Dear

Re: [Bioc-devel] bumphunter package has unstated dependency on digest package?

2015-08-07 Thread Ryan
digest must have been installed in /usr/local but not pkgmaker, so removing it broke the dependency chain. No idea how it got into that state, but problem solved. On 8/7/15 5:06 PM, Martin Morgan wrote: On 08/07/2015 04:31 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: - Original Message - From: Ryan C

[Bioc-devel] search broken on bioconductor.org

2015-09-07 Thread Ryan
Hopefully this can be fixed soon. -Ryan ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel

Re: [Bioc-devel] SummarizedExperiment with alternate back end

2015-09-18 Thread Ryan
interested, you can get it here: http://mneme.homenet.org/~ryan/SubsettableListOfArrays.R -Ryan On 9/18/15 7:41 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote: > While it's useful (and often necessary) to store the big matrices out > of core, it would be convenient to store the metadata (the other > compo

Re: [Bioc-devel] Feedback wanted on design of fixed-width Ranges class

2016-11-23 Thread Ryan
Is it possible to allow the width slot of IRanges to be either a normal vector or an Rle? On 11/23/16 6:18 PM, Peter Hickey wrote: I've been toying with the idea of a fixed/constant width Ranges subclass. The motivation comes from storing DNA methylation data at CH loci (non-CpG methylation):

Re: [Bioc-devel] Feedback wanted on design of fixed-width Ranges class

2016-11-23 Thread Ryan
t even for that case, fixed-wdith ranges are not necessarily usable because a position less than 1kb from the end of a chromosome would require a truncated range. (What behavior would we expect from a hypothetical FWRanges class in this case?) -Ryan On 11/23/16 8:01 PM, Ryan wrote: Is it possibl

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel: Best standards for passing locally assigned variables/functions, e.g. a bpExport()?

2013-11-04 Thread Ryan Thompson
easily adapt the same code to return a list of all packages that a function depends on. -Ryan On Nov 4, 2013 11:35 AM, Michael Lawrence lawrence.mich...@gene.com wrote: The dynamic nature of R limits the extent of these checks. But as Ryan has noted, a simple sanity check goes a long way

Re: [Bioc-devel] Bug in les:::cdfDuplicates

2014-03-25 Thread Ryan Thompson
Thanks! I patched my local copy on my own, so I'll be fine until the next release. On Mar 25, 2014 3:04 AM, Julian Gehring julian.gehr...@embl.de wrote: Hi Ryan, Thank you for the detailed bug report and already providing a fix for this. I have added your patch to 'les_1.13.2' and pushed

Re: [Bioc-devel] Bug in frmaTools

2015-07-07 Thread Ryan Thompson
Actually, the code looks like it should be adding these names, so I need to go back through my code and get back to you on that issue. On Jul 7, 2015 9:58 AM, Ryan C. Thompson r...@thompsonclan.org wrote: I've also encoundered another problem, this time I believe related to a change

Re: [Bioc-devel] edgeR and limma Default Offsets

2017-02-15 Thread Ryan Thompson
They wouldn't be exactly consistent even if they used the same prior count, since the calculations are not identical. edgeR normalizes the prior count by each library's normalization factor so that log fold changes are always squeezed toward zero, while voom, if I understand correctly, does not

[Bioc-devel] segfault in csaw native code

2017-03-21 Thread Ryan Thompson
and error, and occasionally R will segfault. Since the bug is random, I've also included a transcript of me running the script until it crashes, as well as a text file with the traceback in it. Can you help me debug the issue here? Thanks, -Ryan [[alternative HTML version deleted

Re: [Bioc-devel] Why should Bioconductor developers re-use core classes?

2017-10-18 Thread Ryan Thompson
I think the main reason for reusing/subclassing core classes that users can appreciate is that it makes it much easier for users to integrate multiple packages into a single workflow. Only the most basic of pipelines uses just a single Bioconductor package. For instance, an "edgeR" pipeline

Re: [Bioc-devel] Question about external algorithms to Bioconductor package

2017-11-12 Thread Ryan Thompson
for separate installation of other command-line tools. Regards, Ryan Thompson On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 2:12 PM Ioannis Vardaxis <ioannis.varda...@ntnu.no> wrote: > Hi, > I have developed a package and is current under review from > Bioconductor. In the future I am considering

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocInstaller: next generation

2018-05-09 Thread Ryan Thompson
is on CRAN, the biocLite.R script will become a thin wrapper around it? -Ryan On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:29 PM Martin Morgan <martin.mor...@roswellpark.org> wrote: > Developers -- > > A preliminary heads-up and request for comments. > > Almost since project inception, we've used th

Re: [Bioc-devel] limma Suggests:statmod vs Imports:statmod

2018-05-11 Thread Ryan Thompson
ever need to install it. For more info, see this old post about the same problem: https://support.bioconductor.org/p/16932/ Regards, Ryan On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:58 PM Robert Castelo <robert.cast...@upf.edu> wrote: > hi, > > this is a question for limma developers. > > at every n

[Bioc-devel] Accessing package citation info programmatically without running R?

2018-04-17 Thread Ryan Thompson
an option for a web service like this, which wants to return a result quickly. Does anyone know a good way to access this info? Thanks, Ryan Thompson [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https

Re: [Bioc-devel] EXTERNAL: Accessing package citation info programmatically without running R?

2018-04-17 Thread Ryan Thompson
). On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:57 AM Marcel Ramos <marcel.ra...@roswellpark.org> wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > Thanks for pointing this out. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "structured" or "format". We do have > public facing citations > which can be found at

Re: [Bioc-devel] EXTERNAL: Accessing package citation info programmatically without running R?

2018-04-17 Thread Ryan Thompson
ons/BiocFileCache/citation.html> ? Regards, Ryan Thompson On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:23 PM Ryan Thompson <r...@thompsonclan.org> wrote: > I wasn't specific about what I meant by "structured" because I'm not > certain what kind of citation data types CiteAs can handle, though I'd &g

Re: [Bioc-devel] Using SerialParam() as the registered back-end for all platforms

2019-01-07 Thread Ryan Thompson
I don't know if this is helpful for BiocParallel, but there's an extension for the foreach package that ensures reproducible RNG behavior for all parallel backends: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doRNG/index.html Perhaps some of the principles from that package can be re-used? On Mon,

Re: [Bioc-devel] Using SerialParam() as the registered back-end for all platforms

2019-01-08 Thread Ryan Thompson
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 3:26 PM Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > > 1. To achieve fully numerically reproducible RNGs in way that is > *invariant to the number of workers* (amount of chunking), I think the > only solution is to pregenerated RNG seeds (using > parallel::nextRNGStream()) for each

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel

2012-11-14 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
I just submitted a pull request. I'll add tests shortly if I can figure out how to write them. On Wed 14 Nov 2012 03:50:36 PM PST, Martin Morgan wrote: On 11/14/2012 03:43 PM, Ryan C. Thompson wrote: Here are two alternative implementations of pvec. pvec2 is just a simple rewrite of pvec

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel

2012-11-16 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
To be more specific, instead of: library(parallel) cl - ... # Make a cluster parLapply(cl, X, fun, ...) you can do: library(parallel) library(doParallel) library(plyr) cl - ... registerDoParallel(cl) llply(X, fun, ..., .parallel=TRUE) On Fri 16 Nov 2012 11:44:06 AM PST, Ryan C. Thompson wrote

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel

2012-11-17 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
In reply to: On 11/16/2012 09:45 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: But then you have the situation of multi-machines w/ multiple cores -- is this (2) or (3) here? How do you explicitly write code for that w/ foreach mojo? I guess the answer to that is that you let your grid engine (or whatever your

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel -- update

2012-12-04 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
On Tue 04 Dec 2012 11:31:59 AM PST, Michael Lawrence wrote: The name pvec is not very intuitive. What about bpchunk? And since the function passed to bpvectorize is already vectorized, maybe bpvectorize should be bparallelize? I know everyone has different intuitions/preferences when it comes to

Re: [Bioc-devel] Combining Ordinary List of GRanges Optimisation

2013-01-06 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
to generate a list of GRanges similar in size to your blockRanges object, and I'll test them myself. -Ryan Thompson On 01/06/2013 06:00 PM, Dario Strbenac wrote: Hello, For a not so large list of GRanges: length(blockRanges) [1] 4029 class(blockRanges) [1] list Which don't have

[Bioc-devel] Splitting design matrix contrast pivoting logic into a separate function?

2013-08-29 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
matrix (i.e. the part of glmLRT that does all the QR decomposition stuff). Would you consider splitting this logic into a separate function that takes a design matrix and contrast matrix and returns the equivalent reparametrized design matrix and vector of coefficients? Thanks, -Ryan

[Bioc-devel] edgeR crashes when xlsxjars is loaded

2013-12-16 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
/NE8xsa6bxo Thanks, -Ryan ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel

Re: [Bioc-devel] 'droplevels' argument in `[` method for SummarizedExperiment?

2014-03-12 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
I would prefer the droplevels method for SummarizedExperiment, since this is consistent with the use of droplevels on data.frame objects. On Wed 12 Mar 2014 03:02:37 PM PDT, Wolfgang Huber wrote: Hi Martin, Mike a DESeq2 user brought up the observation that when he subsets a ‘DESeqDataSet’

[Bioc-devel] Missing seqinfo method for BamFileList?

2014-04-25 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
. seqinfo(fll) ## Now add a method setMethod(seqinfo, signature=list(x=BamFileList), function (x) { Reduce(merge, lapply(x, seqinfo)) } ) ## Now this returns a good result seqinfo(fll) ## So does this seqlengths(fll) -Ryan Thompson ___ Bioc-devel@r

[Bioc-devel] Additional summarizeOverlaps counting modes for ChIP-Seq

2014-04-30 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
. -Ryan Thompson ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel

Re: [Bioc-devel] Additional summarizeOverlaps counting modes for ChIP-Seq

2014-04-30 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
No, I forgot to attach the file. Here is the link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7qghtksl3mbvlsl/counting-modes.R On Wed 30 Apr 2014 02:18:28 PM PDT, Valerie Obenchain wrote: Hi Ryan, These sound like great contributions. I didn't get an attachment - did you send one? Thanks. Valerie On 04/30

Re: [Bioc-devel] nearest related methods for GRangesList friends?

2014-05-23 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
, so I basically want to call nearest with a GRanges of peaks against a GRangesList of TSS (each TSS is a range with a width of 1 containing the first base pair of a transcript). I don't personally need a method that works for a GRangesList query. -Ryan On Fri 23 May 2014 11:13:24 AM PDT

Re: [Bioc-devel] Additional summarizeOverlaps counting modes for ChIP-Seq

2014-08-05 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
Hi Valerie, I got really busy around May and never got a chance to thank you for adding this option to summarizeOverlaps! So thank you! -Ryan On Thu 01 May 2014 04:25:33 PM PDT, Valerie Obenchain wrote: GenomicAlignments 1.1.8 has a 'preprocess.reads' argument. This should be a function

Re: [Bioc-devel] Additional summarizeOverlaps counting modes for ChIP-Seq

2014-08-05 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
be documented. -Ryan On Tue 05 Aug 2014 05:12:41 PM PDT, Ryan C. Thompson wrote: Hi Valerie, I got really busy around May and never got a chance to thank you for adding this option to summarizeOverlaps! So thank you! -Ryan On Thu 01 May 2014 04:25:33 PM PDT, Valerie Obenchain wrote

Re: [Bioc-devel] Please bump version number when committing changes

2014-09-05 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
experience with svn or with git-svn, but this seems like exactly the use case for it. -Ryan On Fri 05 Sep 2014 04:50:49 PM PDT, Peter Haverty wrote: Hi all, I respectfully disagree. One should certainly check in each discrete unit of work. These will often not result in something that is ready

Re: [Bioc-devel] droplevels method for DataFrame?

2014-10-06 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
either reported it with a patch or explained what I tried and where I got stuck. -Ryan On Mon 06 Oct 2014 05:55:02 PM PDT, Michael Lawrence wrote: Makes sense to me. Just wondering: if S4Vectors were say on github, would this be something that you would be comfortable resolving via a pull request

Re: [Bioc-devel] CRAN package with Bioconductor dependencies

2015-03-02 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
I thought CRAN packages weren't allowed to depend on Bioconductor packages for exactly this reason. On 03/02/2015 03:18 PM, Laurent Gatto wrote: Dear all, I had never realised that CRAN packages that depended on Bioc packages could actually not be installed with install.packages without

[Bioc-devel] Interoperability between DataFrame and dplyr?

2015-04-23 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
things might be complicated because dplyr uses S3 and S4Vectors uses S4. Can anyone offer any pointers? -Ryan ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel

Re: [Bioc-devel] Append/combine option for filterFastq and similar?

2015-04-22 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
That's not ideal because it's duplicating storage unnecessarily. On 04/22/2015 04:07 AM, Aedin wrote: This is one instance were a system or simple unix command is very easy system('cat *.fastq all.fastq') --- On Apr 22, 2015, at 6:00, bioc-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote: Re:

[Bioc-devel] Broken pathway in graphite package?

2015-06-16 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
, but it seems unexpected that graphite cannot handle a pathway included in its own package. -Ryan Thompson sessionInfo() R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16) Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME

Re: [Bioc-devel] Broken pathway in graphite package?

2015-06-16 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
Thanks Ivana, I've forwarded your message to the bioc-devel list so graphite developers can see it. -Ryan On 06/16/2015 12:46 PM, ihnat...@iba.muni.cz wrote: Hello, this problem is caused by the presence of interaction type control(In(INHIBITION-COMPETITIVE)) which is missing

Re: [Bioc-devel] Bioconductor Git/GitHub Mirrors

2015-06-16 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
This is great to hear. I sometimes want to delve into the source code of a package's internals, but doing so through the SVN web interface is clunky. Being able to use Github's repo browsing functionality for Bioc packages is great. On 06/16/2015 12:00 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: Dear

[Bioc-devel] Bug in frmaTools

2015-07-06 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
a test for string equality. I believe the solution is to replace that test with: all(sprintf(%i, pmi) == rownames(pms)) -Ryan ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel

Re: [Bioc-devel] Bug in frmaTools

2015-07-06 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
will have length zero and ifelse does NOT do lazy evaluation. On 07/06/2015 12:21 PM, Ryan C. Thompson wrote: Hello, I just encountered a bug in frmaTools that makes it impossible to use on certain array platforms. The following lines in makeVectorsAffyBatch fail on an AffyBatch object

Re: [Bioc-devel] Bug in frmaTools

2015-07-07 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
MASS_7.3-41 [28] GenomicRanges_1.20.5 colorspace_1.2-6 stringi_0.5-2 [31] munsell_0.4.2 affyio_1.36.0 On 07/07/2015 06:52 AM, Matthew McCall wrote: Ryan, Thanks for pointing these out. I'll look into them soon, but I imagine your assessment is correct. Best, Matt On Mon, Jul 6, 2015

[Bioc-devel] bumphunter package has unstated dependency on digest package?

2015-08-07 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
Konsole output Hello, I was recently setting up the latest version of R Bioc on a system, installing all packages from scratch, and I ran into an error while installing bumphunter. It failed to install because it couldn't load the digest package. After installing this package manually,

Re: [Bioc-devel] Hunting for the subset generic definition?

2015-07-29 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
From base, according to my R console: subset standardGeneric for subset defined from package base function (x, ...) standardGeneric(subset) environment: 0x4eb60c8 Methods may be defined for arguments: x Use showMethods(subset) for currently available ones. On 07/29/2015 10:40 AM, Steve

[Bioc-devel] SRAdb::sraConvert returns results in arbitrary order

2016-11-17 Thread Ryan C. Thompson
. I leave it up to the developers of the SRAdb package to decide whether or not this is a bug, but I think it should at least be documented that the sort order of the output of sraConvert is arbitrary and will not necessarily match the input. -Ryan