[galaxy-dev] Path to tool designation in tool config xml

2011-09-06 Thread Timothy Wu
Hi, I'm trying the add tool tutorial at http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Tools/Add%20Tool%20Tutorial . It works, but how do I designate the path of the tool if it's not dropped into the same directory as the tool config xml? Some executable may not be in the directory. Surely it couldn't

Re: [galaxy-dev] Path to tool designation in tool config xml

2011-09-07 Thread Timothy Wu
Thanks, this helps. I was running with an interpreter and I didn't realize I had to had the full path in there. I was expecting that $PATH which contains the directory the script was located in to take care of it. Thanks you very much for the clarification. Timothy

[galaxy-dev] Command line option

2011-09-10 Thread Timothy Wu
Hi, I'm putting my own tool into Galaxy. Suppose I have an command line option that is designated by a switch. Such as $executable.py -a option input output The -a option is an optional argument. I want to make sure when the option is not given, -a option is entirely taken out. I tried Cheetah

[galaxy-dev] EST download from any source?

2011-09-14 Thread Timothy Wu
Hi, I'm trying to wrap up my own tool in Galaxy. The input to my tool include the set of EST (such as the entire human collection). I tried using UCSC genome browser but it doesn't seem to let me download the whole human collection due to the size of the data. I tried to implement my own FTP

Re: [galaxy-dev] EST download from any source?

2011-09-15 Thread Timothy Wu
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Hans-Rudolf Hotz h...@fmi.ch wrote: On 09/14/2011 10:39 AM, Timothy Wu wrote: // Alternatively, I can just ask user to download from NCBI ftp themselves, decompress them, and upload it to galaxy. What's the best approach here? How about: you download

Re: [galaxy-dev] EST download from any source?

2011-09-15 Thread Timothy Wu
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Peter Cock p.j.a.c...@googlemail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Timothy Wu 2hug...@gmail.com wrote: I think I need some kind of data source implementation that allow user to obtain the data themselves. However with the current tool XML

Re: [galaxy-dev] EST download from any source?

2011-09-15 Thread Timothy Wu
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Timothy Wu 2hug...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Peter Cock p.j.a.c...@googlemail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Timothy Wu 2hug...@gmail.com wrote: I think I need some kind of data source implementation that allow user

[galaxy-dev] The need for wrappers

2011-09-19 Thread Timothy Wu
Hi, Looking under the tools directory I realized that some tools comes with *_wrapper.py. I wonder under what circumstances is this needed? I'm trying to do a quickie for RepeatMasker. It looks to me like the tool does not allow one to specify the name of the output files. It also appears to me

[galaxy-dev] Specifying a range of inputs?

2011-09-22 Thread Timothy Wu
Hi, I'm implementing my own tools. In one tool I may have hundreds of input files. (or maybe I'm doing it wrong?) I'm copying off the tool conf xml code from the concatenate dataset tool. But this requires adding files one by one. Is there a quicker way in which I can just specify these files

Re: [galaxy-dev] Specifying a range of inputs?

2011-09-22 Thread Timothy Wu
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Peter Cock p.j.a.c...@googlemail.comwrote: How does your tool handle this at the command line (ignoring Galaxy)? Does it expect a directory name or pattern, or just a really long command line string with many many file names? Originally I have this config

[galaxy-dev] Name your own tool's output?

2011-10-12 Thread Timothy Wu
Hi, I thought I had already asked this question a while ago, but I can't find it so I guess I haven't. When porting my own tool, is there anyway to customize the name of the output? Timothy ___ Please keep all replies on the list by using

Re: [galaxy-dev] Name your own tool's output?

2011-10-12 Thread Timothy Wu
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Timothy Wu 2hug...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I thought I had already asked this question a while ago, but I can't find it so I guess I haven't. When porting my own tool, is there anyway to customize the name of the output? Timothy I have another perhaps

Re: [galaxy-dev] Name your own tool's output?

2011-10-12 Thread Timothy Wu
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Hans-Rudolf Hotz h...@fmi.ch wrote: Hi Timothy Are you talking about the name as it will appear in the history? Then have a look at the following wiki page: http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/**Admin/Tools/Tool%20Config%**

[galaxy-dev] Galaxy tool's error report

2012-01-03 Thread Timothy Wu
Hi, I'm executing a R script via Python's os.system() (using Rscript executable which allow executing R script in the command line). This script makes use of library that will attempt to load up Tcl/Tk interface. Though I don't see anything even if I'm running the commands on Windows interactive