[BioC] arrayQualityMetrics error

Paulo Nuin nuin at genedrift.org
Sat Feb 12 15:29:47 CET 2011


Hi Wolfgang

Here's just after running ReadAffy:

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.0 Under development (unstable) (2011-01-30 r54169)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] arrayQualityMetrics_3.4.8 affy_1.29.2              
[3] Biobase_2.11.8           

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] affyio_1.19.4         affyPLM_1.27.6        annotate_1.29.2      
 [4] AnnotationDbi_1.13.13 beadarray_2.1.10      Biostrings_2.19.9    
 [7] Cairo_1.4-5           cluster_1.13.2        DBI_0.2-5            
[10] genefilter_1.33.0     grid_2.13.0           Hmisc_3.8-3          
[13] hwriter_1.3           IRanges_1.9.21        lattice_0.19-17      
[16] latticeExtra_0.6-14   limma_3.7.22          marray_1.29.1        
[19] preprocessCore_1.13.5 RColorBrewer_1.0-2    RJSONIO_0.4-1        
[22] RSQLite_0.9-4         setRNG_2009.11-1      splines_2.13.0       
[25] survival_2.36-2       SVGAnnotation_0.7-2   tools_2.13.0         
[28] vsn_3.19.3            XML_3.2-0             xtable_1.5-6   

after running arrayQualityMetrics the only difference is the addition of hgu133plus2cdf_2.7.0 to the list.

Thanks again

Paulo






On 2011-02-11, at 6:21 PM, Wolfgang Huber wrote:

> Dear Paulo
> 
> what's your sessionInfo()?
> 
> 	Wolfgang
> 
> Il Feb/11/11 1:26 PM, Paulo Nuin ha scritto:
>> Hi Wolfgang
>> 
>> Indeed, if I create an X11 tunnel, everything turns ok on the X11 side. My mistake, as the system is remote and some of the tests we run on a local machine.
>> 
>> Nonetheless, we still find a problem at the end of the run, and it's similar to what we experienced the first time. Here is the error and traceback:
>> 
>> 
>>> arrayQualityMetrics(rawAffyData, outdir="quality", force=T)
>> The report will be written into directory 'quality'.
>> Error in UseMethod("xmlAttrs", node) :
>>   no applicable method for 'xmlAttrs' applied to an object of class "NULL"
>>> traceback()
>> 16: xmlAttrs(node, addNamespace)
>> 15: xmlGetAttr(clipPath[["path"]], "d")
>> 14: getRect(xmlGetAttr(clipPath[["path"]], "d"))
>> 13: getPlotRegion(n)
>> 12: FUN(X[[1L]], ...)
>> 11: lapply(X, FUN, ...)
>> 10: sapply(tmp, function(n) all(getPlotRegion(n) == vb))
>> 9: getPlotRegionNodes(doc)
>> 8: is.vector(X)
>> 7: lapply(getPlotRegionNodes(doc), getPlotPoints)
>> 6: getPlotPoints.XMLInternalDocument(doc)
>> 5: annotationInfo at getPlotObjNodes(doc)
>> 4: annotateSvgPlot(infile = svgtemp, outfile = nameimg, outdir = outdir,
>>        annotationInfo = module at svg, name = name)
>> 3: reportModule(p = p, module = modules[[i]], currentIndex = currentIndex,
>>        arrayTable = arrayTableCompact, outdir = outdir)
>> 2: aqm.writereport(modules = m, arrayTable = x$pData, reporttitle = reporttitle,
>>        outdir = outdir)
>> 1: arrayQualityMetrics(rawAffyData, outdir = "quality", force = T)
>> 
>> 
>> I guess this is still related to Cairo's version. I will probably try to use another version of Linux in another machine.
>> 
>> Thanks again. If I have any comments or ideas for the package, I let you know.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Paulo
>> 
>> On 2011-02-10, at 3:19 PM, Wolfgang Huber wrote:
>> 
>>> Paulo
>>> 
>>> what happens if you type
>>> 
>>>  system("xclock&")
>>> 
>>> (Or, in the Unix shell, simply "xclock&"). Do you see a clock?
>>> 
>>> One possible explanation, if you are logging into a server remotely, that you have not enable X11 forwarding.
>>> 
>>> Why R's png() device needs an X11 server is a different story...
>>> 
>>> 	Best wishes
>>> 	Wolfgang
>>> 
>>> Il Feb/10/11 9:11 PM, Paulo Nuin ha scritto:
>>>> Hi Wolfgang
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks a lot for your message. I was able to install this version, both on a release version and on a devel version of R, but I'm running into an error again:
>>>> 
>>>>> arrayQualityMetrics(rawAffyData, outdir="quality", force=T)
>>>> The report will be written into directory 'quality'.
>>>> Error in X11(paste("png::", filename, sep = ""), width, height, pointsize,  :
>>>>   unable to start device PNG
>>>> In addition: Warning message:
>>>> In png(file = nameimg, h = h * dpi, w = w * dpi) :
>>>>   unable to open connection to X11 display ''
>>>> 
>>>> Here are the capabilities
>>>> 
>>>>> capabilities()
>>>>     jpeg      png     tiff    tcltk      X11     aqua http/ftp  sockets
>>>>     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE    FALSE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE
>>>>   libxml     fifo   cledit    iconv      NLS  profmem    cairo
>>>>     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Both versions are the same. I don't know if the error is due to X11 being FALSE. I don't understand why X11 is showing as FALSE, as the binaries were compiled with the --with-x flag, and at the end of configure we got
>>>> 
>>>>   Interfaces supported:      X11
>>>>   External libraries:        readline
>>>>   Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, TIFF, NLS, cairo
>>>>   Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling
>>>> 
>>>> All X11 (xorg-devel) libraries are installed.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks again for the help.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Paulo
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 2011-02-10, at 1:26 PM, Wolfgang Huber wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Dear Paulo
>>>>> 
>>>>> there have been many improvements on the package since the last release, and I would recommend trying the devel version>=3.4.8
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://bioconductor.org/help/bioc-views/2.8/bioc/html/arrayQualityMetrics.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> which afaIcs will run well on R 2.12. One of the advantages is that it uses Simon Urbanek's "Cairo" package, which brings its own cairo library rather than relying on what it finds on the host system [1] - this should solve your problem.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The package is in a state of beta-testing, with
>>>>> - the presentation of the outlier detection in the reports not yet fully cooked,
>>>>> - and I am not yet sure whether&   how well it works on 64bit Windows.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I hope to finalise this within a week or three; any user experiences and comments are welcome.
>>>>> 
>>>>> A sneal preview of the new reports is here [2].
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	Wolfgang
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> [1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/attachments/20110128/ca068c82/attachment.pl
>>>>> [2] http://www-huber.embl.de/users/whuber/pub/Report%20for%20nCCl4%20with%20RIN
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Paulo Nuin scripsit 10/02/11 02:10:
>>>>>> Hi James
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I checked our Cairo version, and it seems quite old. I'm checking the best way to update, as we are using CentOS official package. If the problem persists after upgrade, I will report to the list.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks a lot for your help.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Paulo
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 2011-02-09, at 4:03 PM, James F. Reid wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi Paulo,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 02/09/2011 09:38 PM, Paulo Nuin wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi everyone
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> We just got a new HPC system to speed up our analysis, but we are having some problems with the end part of a arrayQualityMetrics run.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> It goes fine until section 5, were it is interrupted by an error
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> arrayQualityMetrics(rawAffyData, outdir="quality", force=T)
>>>>>>>> The report will be written into directory 'quality'.
>>>>>>>> [[1]]
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> [[2]]
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> [[3]]
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> [[4]]
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Error in UseMethod("xmlAttrs", node) :
>>>>>>>>   no applicable method for 'xmlAttrs' applied to an object of class "NULL"
>>>>>>>> In addition: There were 39 warnings (use warnings() to see them)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The same happened on my system, the problem was a very old version of cairo, see this thread:
>>>>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2010-October/036143.html
>>>>>>> Either upgrade if you can or try using the devel version which I believe detects the capabilites of the system before running and producing annotated svg figures or not.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> HTH,
>>>>>>> James.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Our sessionInfo and capabilities are below. R is compiled natively and most of the required libraries are present and compiled with the system. Any help is appreciated.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>> Paulo
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> capabilities()
>>>>>>>>     jpeg      png     tiff    tcltk      X11     aqua http/ftp  sockets
>>>>>>>>     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE
>>>>>>>>   libxml     fifo   cledit    iconv      NLS  profmem    cairo
>>>>>>>>     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>>>>> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
>>>>>>>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> locale:
>>>>>>>>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>>>>>>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>>>>>>>>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>>>>>>>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>>>>>>>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>>>>>>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> attached base packages:
>>>>>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> other attached packages:
>>>>>>>> [1] hgu133plus2cdf_2.7.0      arrayQualityMetrics_3.2.4
>>>>>>>> [3] vsn_3.18.0                affyPLM_1.26.0
>>>>>>>> [5] preprocessCore_1.12.0     gcrma_2.22.0
>>>>>>>> [7] affy_1.28.0               Biobase_2.10.0
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>>>>>>  [1] affyio_1.18.0        annotate_1.28.0      AnnotationDbi_1.12.0
>>>>>>>>  [4] beadarray_2.0.3      Biostrings_2.18.2    DBI_0.2-5
>>>>>>>>  [7] genefilter_1.32.0    grid_2.12.1          hwriter_1.3
>>>>>>>> [10] IRanges_1.8.8        KernSmooth_2.23-4    lattice_0.19-13
>>>>>>>> [13] latticeExtra_0.6-14  limma_3.6.9          marray_1.28.0
>>>>>>>> [16] RColorBrewer_1.0-2   RSQLite_0.9-4        simpleaffy_2.26.1
>>>>>>>> [19] splines_2.12.1       stats4_2.12.1        survival_2.36-2
>>>>>>>> [22] SVGAnnotation_0.7-2  tools_2.12.1         XML_3.2-0
>>>>>>>> [25] xtable_1.5-6
>>>>>>>> 
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