[BioC] introduction - flowCore user

Nolwenn Le Meur nlemeur at irisa.fr
Thu Jan 22 20:29:53 CET 2009


Hi Steve,

Thank you for point at the error. We need to fix the released version of 
flowViz (I get the same error and have the same package version).  The 
development version works if you really want to test the function but 
you should be careful in mixing release and development versions as it 
may generate new errors that might more difficult to track.

As for your second question if you want all the files from your "Data" 
directory, this should work:

samp <- read.flowSet(path="C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/Desktop/Data")


Hope it helps,
Nolwenn

Steve Lauriault wrote:
> Hi Nolwenn,
>
> Thank you for your response.  I reinstalled packages lattice, latticeExtra
> and flowViz, then went through the tutorial again.  Plot(x) still returns
> the same error:
>
> Error in UseMethod("splom") : no applicable method for "splom"
> Error in print(splom(x, pch = pch, ...)) : 
> error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for function
> 'print'
>
> seesionInfo() returns:
>
> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) 
> i386-pc-mingw32 
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] tools     tcltk     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets 
> [8] methods   base     
>
> other attached packages:
>  [1] flowViz_1.6.1      latticeExtra_0.5-4 lattice_0.17-20
> RColorBrewer_1.0-2
>  [5] flowCore_1.8.0     Biobase_2.2.1      feature_1.2.0      ks_1.5.10
>
>  [9] rpanel_1.0-5       KernSmooth_2.22-22 rrcov_0.4-08       pcaPP_1.5
>
> [13] mvtnorm_0.9-4      robustbase_0.4-5  
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] AnnotationDbi_1.4.2 cluster_1.11.12     DBI_0.2-4          
> [4] geneplotter_1.20.0  graph_1.20.0        grid_2.8.1         
> [7] MASS_7.2-45         RSQLite_0.7-1       stats4_2.8.1       
>
> ---
>
> To elaborate on my second question, let us say that I have a single FCS 2.0
> file located at: 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\Data\filename.fcs
>
> And a folder of FCS 2.0 files located at: 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\Data
>
> Can I extract this data folder as a flowSet?  If so, where and in what
> format do I plug the folder location information into:
>  
> fcs.loc <- system.file("extdata",package="flowCore")
> file.location <- paste(fcs.loc, dir(fcs.loc), sep="/")
> samp <- read.flowSet(file.location[1:3])  
>
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Stevan Lauriault
> Founder, President and C.E.O.
> Lauritech Inc. 
> steve at lauritech.com
> www.lauritech.com
> t/f: (416)283-4066
>  
>            
> Lauritech Inc.
>  
>
>  
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nolwenn Le Meur [mailto:nlemeur at irisa.fr] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 3:36 AM
> To: stevan at lauriault.com
> Cc: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [BioC] introduction - flowCore user
>
> Steve Lauriault wrote:
>   
>> Dear Members,
>>
>> My name is Stevan Lauriault.  I am a flow cytometrist by trade, and I'm
>>     
> just
>   
>> beginning to access R, flowCore and related packages for the purpose of
>> learning, accessing a good free analysis platform, and perhaps
>>     
> contributing
>   
>> some insight/ideas to developers.  
>>
>> I have a good background with FlowJo, CellQuest Pro, and FCS Express
>> software packages/features but am very new to open source development.
>>     
> I'm
>   
>> interested in high throughput quantitative imaging (and classical) flow
>> cytometry, population comparison algorithms, clustering/filtering and
>>     
> batch
>   
>> statistical export/analysis.  
>>
>> I'm currently going through the "HowTo_flowCore.pdf" document, and in
>> section 2.1.3 the plot(x) function returns the error:
>>
>> Error in UseMethod("splom") : no applicable method for "splom" Error in
>> print(splom(x, pch = pch, ...)) : 
>> error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for function
>> 'print'
>>
>> I have been told that splom now uses panel.xyplot.flowframe.  How do I
>> correct this error?
>>
>> Also, this is probably a very easy question.  I am running R/flowCore on
>> Pentium4/Windows XP, and I'd like to know what annotation I should use to
>> extract FCS (2, 3, or looking forward... 4) files of a designated dos
>> filepath from my C:\ drive and read into the read.FCS function?  For
>> example, what format do I substitute for file.name in the function
>> read.FCS(file.name).  How then do I retrieve a series of FCS files and
>>     
> apply
>   
>> them to flowSet?  
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Stevan Lauriault
>>
>> Founder
>> Lauritech Inc. 
>> steve at lauritech.com
>> www.lauritech.com
>> t/f: (416)283-4066
>>   
>>  
>>  
>>
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> Hi Steve,
>
> I thank you for your interest in the flowCore suite.
>
> Recent improvements have been done in the lattice, latticeExtra and 
> flowViz packages (used by flowCore for plotting) and you should probably 
> update those to be able to use the plot function that use the splom method.
>
> By the way, when reporting error messages, I would recommend that you 
> send in our emails the output of the sessionInfo() command so we can see 
> what version of R and associated packages you are using. More and more 
> packages have dependencies and the version of each package is important. 
> If you are using released R and bioC packages it evolves slowly (every 
> 6months) but it happens that major bugs need to be fixed within the 
> 6months. If you use development versions it can be very unstable.
>
> I am not sure I get your second question but I am going to try to 
> answer. You should be able to read batch of FCS2 and 3 files directly 
> using the flowCore function read.flowSet. This will automatically 
> generate a flowSet object:
> fcs.loc <- system.file("extdata",package="flowCore")
> file.location <- paste(fcs.loc, dir(fcs.loc), sep="/")
> samp <- read.flowSet(file.location[1:3])
>
> See flowSet man page for more details.
>
> Best regards,
> Nolwenn Le Meur
>
>   


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