[BioC] Problems when access elements in mogene10stprobeset.db

Marc Carlson mcarlson at fhcrc.org
Fri Aug 7 19:03:46 CEST 2009


Hi Peng,

We know that it is not the R code you showed us or the packages that
they depend on because that code has been verified to work several ways
by multiple different people.  But there is something strange going on
because your sessionInfo() shows 3 packages loading that are not loaded
when anyone else runs your code.  Loading these packages does not
reproduce the problem either, but the fact that your system is loading
them when they are not needed suggests that there must be something is
going on that we don't know about...  And you are using --no-restore and
--no-init-file, so they should not be loading  up from a previous R
session.  So I can't help but wonder if perhaps you might have left some
of the code that you are running out of the previous message by
mistake?  Also have you tried --vanilla to just eliminate every possible
outside influence on your R session?


  Marc



Peng Yu wrote:
> Can somebody help me figure out what is wrong for my case?
>
> Regards,
> Peng
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Peng Yu<pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> BTW, I also have this alias on my system.
>>
>> $ which R
>> alias R='R-2.9.1 --no-save --no-restore'
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Peng Yu<pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Hervé,
>>>
>>> I even can not run the second command ('showMethods'). The following
>>> is the screen copy. Could you talk a look what is wrong?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Peng
>>>
>>>
>>> =================start here
>>> $ R --no-init-file
>>>
>>> R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
>>> Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>>>
>>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
>>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>>>
>>>  Natural language support but running in an English locale
>>>
>>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
>>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
>>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>>>
>>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
>>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
>>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> library(mogene10stprobeset.db)
>>>>         
>>> Loading required package: AnnotationDbi
>>> Loading required package: Biobase
>>>
>>> Welcome to Bioconductor
>>>
>>>  Vignettes contain introductory material. To view, type
>>>  'openVignette()'. To cite Bioconductor, see
>>>  'citation("Biobase")' and for packages 'citation(pkgname)'.
>>>
>>> Loading required package: DBI
>>>       
>>>> showMethods("colnames")
>>>>         
>>> Error in .showMethodsTable(fdef, includeDefs, inherited, classes = classes,  :
>>>  trying to get slot "signature" from an object of a basic class
>>> ("NULL") with no slots
>>>       
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>         
>>> R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
>>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>
>>> other attached packages:
>>> [1] mogene10stprobeset.db_2.0.2 RSQLite_0.7-1
>>> [3] DBI_0.2-4                   AnnotationDbi_1.6.1
>>> [5] Biobase_2.4.1
>>>
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] affy_1.22.1          affyio_1.12.0        makecdfenv_1.22.0
>>> [4] preprocessCore_1.6.0
>>>
>>> ===================end here
>>>
>>> ===================start here again
>>> $ R --no-init-file
>>>
>>> R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
>>> Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>>>
>>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
>>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>>>
>>>  Natural language support but running in an English locale
>>>
>>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
>>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
>>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>>>
>>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
>>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
>>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>         
>>> R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
>>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>> ==========================end here
>>>
>>> 2009/8/6 Hervé Pagès <hpages at fhcrc.org>:
>>>       
>>>> Hi Peng,
>>>>
>>>> Like Marc, I cannot reproduce this either. I've run your script with
>>>> Rscript and also interactively. I have exactly the same version of
>>>> everything as you *except* that you end up with more stuff loaded in
>>>> your session:
>>>>
>>>>  YOU HAVE
>>>>  --------
>>>>    other attached packages:
>>>>      [1] mogene10stprobeset.db_2.0.2 RSQLite_0.7-1
>>>>      [3] DBI_0.2-4                   AnnotationDbi_1.6.1
>>>>      [5] makecdfenv_1.22.0           affyio_1.12.0
>>>>      [7] affy_1.22.1                 Biobase_2.4.1
>>>>    loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>>      [1] preprocessCore_1.6.0
>>>>
>>>>  I HAVE
>>>>  ------
>>>>    other attached packages:
>>>>      [1] mogene10stprobeset.db_2.0.2 RSQLite_0.7-1
>>>>      [3] DBI_0.2-4                   AnnotationDbi_1.6.1
>>>>      [5] Biobase_2.4.1
>>>>
>>>> How can you end up with those extra packages? Even if I cannot
>>>> explain how the presence of these packages could be related to
>>>> the error you get, there is something weird here that you need
>>>> to investigate.
>>>>
>>>> Do you see those extra packages when you run
>>>>  Rscript --no-init-file mogeneID.R
>>>>
>>>> Do you get this error when you run the script interactively?
>>>> What's your sessionInfo() right after you've started R-2.9.1
>>>> interactively and loaded mogene10stprobeset.db? Should be the same
>>>> as mine.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like the colnames method for Bimap objects is returning NULL.
>>>> Or like there is no colnames method for Bimap objects anymore. In that
>>>> case, calling colnames on the object will also return NULL.
>>>>
>>>> Can you please run the following code step by step and see if you get
>>>> the same output as I do:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> library(mogene10stprobeset.db)
>>>>> showMethods("colnames")
>>>>>           
>>>> Function: colnames (package base)
>>>> x="AnnDbBimap"
>>>> x="ANY"
>>>> x="FlatBimap"
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> all_probes<-ls(mogene10stprobesetENTREZID)
>>>>> set.seed(0xa1beef)
>>>>> probes <-sample(all_probes, 5)
>>>>> print(probes)
>>>>>           
>>>> [1] "10377734" "10527109" "10489285" "10353981" "10371859"
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> x <- mogene10stprobesetENTREZID
>>>>> colnames(x)
>>>>>           
>>>> [1] "probe_id" "gene_id"
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> keys(x) <- probes
>>>>> colnames(x)
>>>>>           
>>>> [1] "probe_id" "gene_id"
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Rattribnames(x) <- NULL
>>>>> colnames(x)
>>>>>           
>>>> [1] "probe_id" "gene_id"
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> y <- AnnotationDbi:::flatten(x, fromKeys.only=TRUE)
>>>>> class(y)
>>>>>           
>>>> [1] "FlatBimap"
>>>> attr(,"package")
>>>> [1] "AnnotationDbi"
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> colnames(y)
>>>>>           
>>>> [1] "probe_id" "gene_id"
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Rattribnames(y) <- NULL
>>>>> colnames(y)
>>>>>           
>>>> [1] "probe_id" "gene_id"
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> H.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>>           
>>>> R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
>>>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>>
>>>> other attached packages:
>>>> [1] mogene10stprobeset.db_2.0.2 RSQLite_0.7-1
>>>> [3] DBI_0.2-4                   AnnotationDbi_1.6.1
>>>> [5] Biobase_2.4.1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Peng Yu wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I run the following command, which still give me the same error.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rscript --no-init-file mogeneID.R
>>>>>
>>>>> Can somebody let me know how to figure out what the problems are? Is
>>>>> there any hiden BioC information that may be shown to pinpoint the
>>>>> problems?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Peng
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Marc Carlson<mcarlson at fhcrc.org> wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hi Peng,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have run the following;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> library(mogene10stprobeset.db)
>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>>> all_probes<-ls(mogene10stprobesetENTREZID)
>>>>>> set.seed(0xa1beef)
>>>>>> probes <-sample(all_probes, 5)
>>>>>> print(probes)
>>>>>> mogene10stprobesetENTREZID[[probes[1]]]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And it runs fine for me.  So I don't think there is anything wrong with
>>>>>> your R script, unless there is more than you have shown us here.  The
>>>>>> one thing I noticed was that my version of R was slightly newer than
>>>>>> yours.  But a problem like you report here should have alerted a lot
>>>>>> more people if it were caused by R.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Marc
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Peng Yu wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Below this email is the R script and the output that I got after
>>>>>>> running the script. Can somebody take a look help me figure out why I
>>>>>>> get an error message? I followed in the instructions in
>>>>>>> AnnotationDbi.pdf.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Peng
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $ cat mogeneID.R
>>>>>>> library(mogene10stprobeset.db)
>>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>>>> all_probes<-ls(mogene10stprobesetENTREZID)
>>>>>>> set.seed(0xa1beef)
>>>>>>> probes <-sample(all_probes, 5)
>>>>>>> print(probes)
>>>>>>> mogene10stprobesetENTREZID[[probes[1]]]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $ Rscript mogeneID.R
>>>>>>> Loading required package: methods
>>>>>>> Loading required package: Biobase
>>>>>>> Loading required package: utils
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Welcome to Bioconductor
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Vignettes contain introductory material. To view, type
>>>>>>>  'openVignette()'. To cite Bioconductor, see
>>>>>>>  'citation("Biobase")' and for packages 'citation(pkgname)'.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Loading required package: affy
>>>>>>> Loading required package: affyio
>>>>>>> Loading required package: AnnotationDbi
>>>>>>> Loading required package: DBI
>>>>>>> R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
>>>>>>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> locale:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> attached base packages:
>>>>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> other attached packages:
>>>>>>> [1] mogene10stprobeset.db_2.0.2 RSQLite_0.7-1
>>>>>>> [3] DBI_0.2-4                   AnnotationDbi_1.6.1
>>>>>>> [5] makecdfenv_1.22.0           affyio_1.12.0
>>>>>>> [7] affy_1.22.1                 Biobase_2.4.1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>>>>> [1] preprocessCore_1.6.0
>>>>>>> [1] "10377734" "10527109" "10489285" "10353981" "10371859"
>>>>>>> Error in names(colnames) <- colmetanames(x) :
>>>>>>>  attempt to set an attribute on NULL
>>>>>>> Calls: [[ ... as.list -> as.list -> .tagCol -> tagname -> tagname
>>>>>>> Execution halted
>>>>>>>
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>>>> --
>>>> Hervé Pagès
>>>>
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