[BioC] report a possible buy in edgeR

Mark Robinson mark.robinson at imls.uzh.ch
Mon Jul 9 14:10:29 CEST 2012


Hi Shan,

I don't see the problem here.  Can you elaborate?

Why should it be the sum of a matrix?  Keep in mind also that this function is run using apply() to each column of the count matrix.

Best,
Mark

On 08.07.2012, at 23:44, wang peter wrote:

> dear all:
>      i read the source coding of edgeR_2.4.6
> the function of .calcFactorWeighted has some problem
> 
> .calcFactorWeighted <- function(obs, ref, logratioTrim=.3,
> sumTrim=0.05, doWeighting=TRUE, Acutoff=-1e10) {
> 
>  if( all(obs==ref) )
>    return(1)
> 
>  obs <- as.numeric(obs)
>  ref <- as.numeric(ref)
> 
>  nO <- sum(obs)  # this is should be the sum of matrix
>  nR <- sum(ref)
> 
> 
> from the formula in the cited paper, it seems it should be column sum
> -- 
> shan gao
> Room 231(Dr.Fei lab)
> Boyce Thompson Institute
> Cornell University
> Tower Road, Ithaca, NY 14853-1801
> Office phone: 1-607-254-1267(day)
> Official email:sg839 at cornell.edu
> Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001986532253
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Bioconductor mailing list
> Bioconductor at r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor
> Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor

----------
Prof. Dr. Mark Robinson
Bioinformatics
Institute of Molecular Life Sciences
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zurich
Switzerland

v: +41 44 635 4848
f: +41 44 635 6898
e: mark.robinson at imls.uzh.ch
o: Y11-J-16
w: http://tiny.cc/mrobin

----------
http://www.fgcz.ch/Bioconductor2012



More information about the Bioconductor mailing list