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Changes in BioC Devel, May 2007

    May 2007

affy

    remove the core parts of the quantile normalization code which
    operate on matrix objects. This code has been moved to a new
    package preprocessCore.

    Fixed featureNames for AffyBatch objects
   
    core c medianpolish code removed. Now calls preprocessCore for
    this purpose.

    Doc fix - mention how to retrieve se.exprs from mas5calls in
    the mas5calls help page

affyio

    fix for small issue with closing files in gzipped binary CEL
    file workflow

    fix SET_VECTOR_ELT/SET_STRING_ELT problem in read.cdffile.list
    with text cdf files

affylmGUI

    Fixed uses of @exprs, @se.exprs, @cdfName, @weights in plot.R
    Similarly in Normalize.R for similar references Fixed bug in
    IntensityHistogramAll function Fixed bug in HeatDiagramFile
    menu commands changelog updated

affyPLM

    removing core quantile normalization code moved to
    preprocessCore

    remove the core medianpolish code. Use the code in
    preprocessCore for this purpose instead

    move the core RLM C code to preprocessCore

affyQCReport

    Moved dist2() from affyQCReport to genefilter

AnnBuilder

    fix bug related to KEGG EC number extraction
   
   
annotate

    Removed setGeneric() statements for methods GOID, Term,
    Synonym, Secondary, Definition and Ontology: these statements
    are now in AnnotationDbi (>= 0.0.69).

   
AnnotationDbi

    Reorganized the AnnObj class hierarchy (with lot of class
    renaming). Added minimal infrastructure for GO_DB
    schema. Minor bug fix (and reorganization) in the code that
    generates the man pages of an ann db pkg from its template.

    Some new generics: left.db_table, left.colname,
    right.db_table, right.colname. Added the L2Rpath slot to
    AnnDbMap objects: will replace current slots leftTable,
    leftCol, rightTable, rightCol and join so at some point they
    will be removed. Started to re-implement some methods of the
    low-level API to take advantage of the L2Rpath slot.

    Almost completed the 'join' to 'L2Rpath' migration. Removed
    slots leftTable, leftCol, rightTable, rightCol and join from
    AnnDbMap objects. Modified definition of the HGU95AV2_DB
    schema (in R/schema.HGU95AV2_DB.R) to make use of the new
    AnnDbMap slots (schema definition is now shorter and easier to
    read/modify).  Still broken: AG_DB, YEAST2_DB, YEAST_DB and
    AFFYHUEX_DB schemas + the AnnDbTable class.

    The as.character(), toList() and as.list() methods were broken
    when the data frame returned by toTable has duplicated names
    (this can now happen with the GO_DB schema e.g. with
    toTable(GOBPPARENTS, "GO:0000001")).

    16/19 maps of the GO_DB schema are ready for testing. Replaced
    the GoAnnDbMap class by 2 classes: GoAnnDbMap (one single
    right table) and Go3AnnDbMap (3 right tables). Old GoAnnDbMap
    class corresponds to new Go3AnnDbMap class. Same changes for
    the corresponding reverse classes.

    Added R/GOTerm.R from annotate (with "GOTerms" replaced by
    "GOTerm").

    Removed Ontology method for signature="ANY" since (1) not
    clear it is useful and (2) it is already defined in annotate.

    Added the "filter" feature (stored in new slots Lfilter and
    Rfilter for AnnDbMap objects): 12 maps use it in the GO_DB
    schema. Did some basic testing but need to do more.

    Renamed "GOTerm" class -> "GONode" (more appropriate).

    Completed annother important move: the "L2Rpath" slot
    (AnnDbMap class) is now a list of L2Rbricks objects. This
    change allows the representation of maps that did not fit in
    the previous model (e.g. GOTERM, GOOBSOLETE, GOSYNONYM). The
    implementation of the low-level API was modified
    accordingly. All predefined maps for the HGU95AV2_DB and GO_DB
    schemas now use this new format (the other schemas will follow
    soon). The number of GO_DB maps that are ready is still
    16/19. However the last 3 maps have been added but are not yet
    fully functional (only the low-level API works on them). Added
    4 new generics to the low-level API: tagnames, colnames,
    left.filter and right.filter.

    Renamed the following generics: left.db_table -> left.table,
    right.db_table -> right.table, mapped.left.names ->
    left.mappedNames, mapped.right.names -> right.mappedNames,
    mapped.names -> mappedNames, count.mapped.left.names ->
    count.left.mappedNames, count.mapped.right.names ->
    count.right.mappedNames and count.mapped.names ->
    count.mappedNames. This breaks some examples in the HGU95AV2DB
    package template so all the HGU95AV2_DB-based packages need to
    be remade.

    Added a "sample" method for AnnDbMap objects. I put it in
    AnnDbMap-envirAPI.R because it is _not_ low-level: it is built
    on top of the "as.list" method which is itself _not_ low-level
    (as.list is defined in AnnDbMap-envirAPI.R).

    The GO_DB schema is almost ready: 18/19 maps are fully
    functional. The GOOBSOLETE map is also ready in theory but
    because it uses queries like "SELECT NULL AS blabla FROM ...",
    then it crashes RSQLite :-/.

    Use a temporary workaround for the GOOBSOLETE crash (see
    commit 24833) so now all maps in the GO_DB schema are fully
    functional (still needs more testing). Some improvements to
    the GONode class and methods (added an "initialize" method) so
    that mono-valued and multi-valued slots are treated
    differently.

    Added the "FlatBimap" class and its API: "ncol", "colnames",
    "left.colname", "right.colname", "left.names", "right.names",
    "left.length", "right.length", "left.mappedNames",
    "right.mappedNames", "count.left.mappedNames",
    "count.right.mappedNames", "nrow", "dim", "links", "nlinks",
    "head", "tail" and "fold". Added some of them to the AnnDbObj
    low-level API: "ncol", "dim", "links", "nlinks" ("links" and
    "nlinks" not ready yet). Also added the "flatten" method to
    this API as a replacement for "toTable" the difference being
    that "flatten" returns a FlatBimap object instead of a naked
    data frame ("toTable" will be deprecated soon). All the
    "as.list" methods for AnnDbMap objects (envir-like API) now
    use "flatten" instead of "toTable" for retrieving the data
    from the database.

    Added the BimapAPI0 interface (the common interface to
    FlatBimap and to AnnDbMap objects). The "FlatBimap" and
    "AnnDbMap" classes extend it. Renamed the "nlinks" generic ->
    "count.links". Reorganized a little bit the code in
    R/FlatBimap.R and R/AnnDbObj-lowAPI.R + improved the
    comments. Added a new test, checkProperty0(), in
    R/AnnDbPkg-checker.R.

arrayQualityMetrics
   
    New Package:       
        This package performs quality metrics on AffyBatch,
        ExpressionSet, NchannelSet, containing microarray data
        from any platforms, one or two channels. The results are
        designated to allow the user to rapidly assess the quality
        of a set of arrays.
       
     Maintainer:
        Audrey Kauffmann

beadarray

     bug fix to path argument in readIllumina() - added warning
     message to readIllumina() when text or tif files are not
     found

     BeadLevelList has a new slot 'annotation' for storing the
     annotation package name. - changes to readIllumina() to allow
     data in text files to be stored in BeadLevelList instead of
     having to use images (useImages argument) to get the
     intensities. A new argument annoPkg and singleChannel have
     also been added to allow users to specify the relevant
     annotation package (if there is one - expression only at
     present) and the type of data (one channel or two). The type
     of background correction and normalization is also now
     recorded in the 'arrayInfo' slot. - numBeads has a new
     argument 'array' - createBeadSummaryData now passes on
     'annotation' argument from BeadLevelList to
     ExpressionSetIllumina object. - new BLData.rda added with
     'annotation' slot - removed unused arguments 'identify' from
     plotMA, plotXY and plotMAXY functions - updated man pages for
     most functions to improve examples, descriptions and match
     brackets

     new argument 'annoPkg' to readBeadSummaryData - updated
     readBeadSummaryData man page

     added beadInfo argument to readIllumina() which fills in the
     beadAnno slot if supplied. Updated man page to reflect this
     change - added file argument to example in readQC man page
     (was missing)

     Removed various redundant functions Updated vignettes and
     example data sets added introductory vignette to work with
     vignette() function

beadarraySNP

    LOH / genotype reporting

    setting up Interactive determination of Copy numbers

   
bgx

    Bugfix (closing unopened ofstream); small memory management
    improvement

    Added informative message for missing boost libraries

    Small change to bgx.Rd example; fixed memory leak in
    bgx_frontend.cc

    gene buffer overflow fix; plotDEHistogram fix/cleanup; added
    comment in example
   
Biobase

    More informative error message when AnnotatedDataFrame fails
    to initialize

    Separate setMethod and function definition for
    annotatedDataFrameFrom This allows methods for new classes
    (e.g., BufferedMatrix) to reuse code without 'tricking' method
    dispatch.  Function defintions remain not exported, to
    discourage the end user from accessing directly.

    When implementing $ methods, don't rely on [[ doing partial
    matching Hopefully, [[ will stop partial matching at some
    point in the near future. To retain the partial matching
    semantics of $ methods, we can no longer rely on [[. In most
    cases, all cases here, the solution is to call "$"(x, n) in
    the method definition.

    Fix bug in $ methods The previous patch that implemented $
    methods using $ instead of [[ was broken. It seems that $
    stops dispatching after entering the first method or ???. This
    patch passes a basic test, but relies on an unfortunate
    eval/substitute hack.

    Add NChannelSet class * Stores data from N-channel (e.g.,
    two-color) experiments in an eSet-derived object. Matricies in
    assay data correspond to different channels, with rows in each
    matrix representing features and columns samples. phenoData
    varMetadata has a column 'channel' indicating which channel
    the phenodata is associated with (either an assay data member,
    or the special symbol _ALL_ representing phenotypic data
    common to all assays). * Object creation like ExpressionSet
    (see inst/UnitTest and man pages) * channel(object, <channel>)
    creates an ExpressionSet object * selectChannels(object,
    <channels>) subsets NChannelSet by channel.  * Additional
    miscelaneous fixes: - document tidy - AnnotatedDataFrame
    ... arguments can be used to specify varMetadata information:
    adf[[covX, labelDescription="Covariate X", channel="G"]] =
    1:10

    Use 'unsafeSetSlot' within eSet replacement methods. This
    relies on the _current implementation_ of S4 generics making a
    copy before entering the replacement method -- incoming
    objects have exactly one reference, and hence can be modified
    'in place'. This saves 2-4 copies of the object, but is
    terrible programming practice (relying on implementation
    detail; direct slot assignment, ...) and the problem is only
    partially 'real' (when assayData is an environment or
    lockedEnvironment, the 'big' data isn't being copied anyway).
   
    Safer unsafeSetSlot "sampleNames<-"(...) allowed the
    unsafeSetSlot to seep out. Instead, only use unsafeSetSlot
    after triggering a copy _within_ the replacement
    method. Idioms like phenoData(object) <- pd (appear to)
    trigger an extra copy compared to object@phenoData <- pd, so
    use direct slot access at crucial points internally

    Refactor ScalarCharacter: add ScalarInteger, ScalarNumeric
    There is now a ScalarObject class that handles the basic
    validation. There is also a factory function, mkScalar, that
    creates a Scalar<type> instance of the appropriate type.

    Added new function read.AnnotatedDataFrame2 that hopefully
    will replace read.AnnotatedDataFrame.

   
Biostrings

    Replaced the "CharBuffer" and "IntBuffer" classes by "XRaw"
    (external raw vector) and "XInteger" (external integer vector)
    respectively. The "XRaw" class is the RAWSXP-based replacement
    for the previously CHARSXP-based "CharBuffer" class. The
    "XInteger" class is the same as the "IntBuffer" class: just a
    renaming. Also followed Seth recommendation to not use
    allocString anymore for creating new CHARSXP objects: now I
    use mkChar() everywhere for this.

    Fixed some breakage introduced by the "CharBuffer to XRaw"
    migration started at r24995.
   
Category

    Add exports and doc for DatPkg class and subclasses This will
    allow others to properly subclass the HyperGParams class, but
    still needs more thought. These classes might be candidates to
    move into the annotate package.

    Fix bug in applyByCategory, use rownames not colnames
   
    In makeChrBandGraph, check that we have a human chip The
    current implementation can only handle the parsing of human
    chromosome band annotations. For now, we fail early with an
    error message if we are given an annodation data package that
    isn't for Homo sapiens.

    Add cb_children function, use min.expected instead of
    min.found

    geneIdsByCategory didn't respect conditional, fix and refactor
    Refactored methods so that more are implemented for
    HyperGResultBase and rely on condGeneIdUniverse geneIds being
    defined. This should reduce code duplication and make the
    handling of conditional test results more uniform.
   
    makeChrBandInciMat now returns gene sets on rows, genes on
    columns This is more convenient for application of GSEA

    Small tweak to ttperm, use known length to init list, not NULL
   
    Add gseaperm function This function provides a convenient
    interface for obtaining permutation based p-values for a GSEA
    analysis based on a t-statistic.

    removed the dependency on Matrix

    gseaperm optionally uses Matrix so it moves to Suggests We'd
    like to be able to import Matrix, but there are issues with
    that at the moment.

cellHTS

    The plate normalization in normalizeChannels.R is now done
    BEFORE calling fun. I have also simplified its code and man
    page.

EBImage

    Image() bug fix new("Image", .Data=smth) did not work with new
    R!!!! corrected as res<-new("Image"); res@.Data=smth - works

    Added: image moments and moment invariants, rotation angle and
    elongation etc; IndexedImage class for object detection
    problems. Corrected: some documentation, "}" problems in
    several man pages. Updated: normalize method transfered to C
    enabling per-frame normalizations; image.Image, hist.Image
    transfered to S4 to enable inherited use by IndexedImage;
    windows dll recompiled with the newest releases of R-2.5.0,
    GTK 2.10.11-1 and ImageMagick 6.3.4-1

    'display' for IndexedImage's now normalizes the image by
    default

    choose.image now allows to specify if images are to be read as
    grayscale (with 16-bit color precision if IM compiled so) or
    as true color (with 8-bit per color, thus loosing image info
    if images subsequently converted to grayscales)

   
    critical bug correction (obvious only in R2.6): in the C code
    Image objects were created incorrectly! Basically they were
    created as arrays onto which additional attributes (including
    class name) were attached. In R2.6 this led to R ignoring [
    operators redefined for Image although class(obj) still shows
    Image! Now corrected throughout.

    filter is no more a slot in the Image, it is now supplied in
    the resize function (not used anywhere else)

   
exonmap

    fixed cex having no effect in gene.strip
   
    fixed bug in .X.to.probeset functions

    fixed missing rownames in pc()

    Added probeset/exon/transcript/gene translation functions for
    Ensembl ESTs and genescan predictions, fixed the use of unique
    in translation fucntions

   
flowCore

    fix read.FCS function to support NA under the keywords
    ANASTART ANAEND of the header section

    improve read.FCS function to read a sample of records; add the
    read.FCSheader function

    Add an the which.lines argument for the read.FCS function

    Add missing slot transformId in the transforms object so that
    transformML works

    Add splitScaleTransformation (for transformML) Modify read.FCS
    to remove random sampling but leave which.lines Add parentId
    argument in class Filter Fix rectangle gate boundary allow
    Min>=Max like in GateML standard, return empty gate

flowViz

    added a vignette about visualizing filters

    moved ecdfplot to use different idiom based on match.call(),
    which is kinda necessary to support nonstandard evaluation of
    groups etc.

   
gcrma

    Replaced calls to xy2i() with calls to xy2indices().

genefilter

    Add feature.exclude argument to nsFilter feature.exclude
    allows the user to specify a character vector of regular
    expressions. Probe sets (featureNames) that match one of the
    regular expressions are removed during the filtering
    process. This is especially useful for removing quality
    control probe sets.

    I moved dist2 from affyQCReport to genefilter

   
GeneticsBase

    fixed two bugs: (1) 'file' in the file 'readGenes.ped.R'
    should be 'filename' (2) the function 'getFounders' should be
    called without condition in 'getLD.R'

    (1) added some code to LD functions to check if ped is
    validated. (2) fixed a bug in test.R (the 'sampleInfo' should
    have at least 5 columns)

    fixed a bug in the function 'getFounders'

graph

    Remove Suggests on Biobase Instead, we now check to see if
    Biobase is already loaded and then (on Windows) attempt to add
    the vignette to the GUI menu. This results in a warning from R
    CMD check, but seems the best compromise for now.

    Use R_VERSION to work around interface change to Rf_duplicated
    This patch allows the graph package to compile against R-2.5
    and R-2.6

GSEABase

    New Package:
        This package provides classes and methods to support Gene
        Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA).  In particular, the
        GeneSet class provides a common data structure for
        representing gene sets.
       
     Maintainer:
        Biocore team

limma

    Bug fix to read.columns() to stop spurious warning message
    when text.to.search has length greater than one.

    Fixes to as.matrix for ExpressionSet and LumiBatch objects.

    as.matrix methods for ExpressionSet added to NAMESPACE

    as.matrix method for vsn objects added

   
matchprobes

    Small fix to escape underscores in probe file name in package
    man page so they will pass R CMD check.

    Better handling of creation of new strings, following recent
    changes to mkChar
   
    Fix memory leak Calls to CallocCharBuf need a matching call to
    Free
   
oligo

    adding justSNPRMA - less memory intensive / keeping
    BufferedMatrix only for SNP chips, everything else uses matrix
    / adding dependence on preprocessCore

   
oneChannelGUI

    The ExpressionSet error generated loading exon data and large
    tab delimited files was removed

    Bug related to Targets files with FileNames containing "-"
    fixed

    Fixed bug in table output from GOenrichment function
   
    added the possibility to locate a legend in ocPlotPCA.R
    function

    Affymetrix APT tools could be used to upload gene/exon level
    probe set summaries on oneChannelGUI.

    The visualization of samples in the pCA space was improved to
    fit an high number of sample. Legene was dusabled Exon data,
    loaded using the APT implementation, are consistent the gene
    meta data. A bug related to unbalance expeirmental design was
    fixed. The PDMCLASS package was implemented.

    Fixing a warning do the absence of the
    OpenCDFandTargetsfiles.R function derived from affylmGUI

    affyPLM was temporarely removed from description to allow the
    windows building

preprocessCore

    New Package:
        A library of core preprocessing routines for various
        packages (affy, affyPLM, oligo, etc.)
   
    Maintainer:
        Benjamin Milo Bolstad


RBGL

    output node names only for articulationPoints
   
    update output format for biConnComp

    remove sp.between.old

    update .gxl files to get rid of warnings

Rintact

    add parsers for PSI-MI 2.5 XML format

    update parseInteractor function: don't pick intact ID when
    refType is isoform-parent
   
    add a new slot "confidenceValue" in class "intactInteraction"
    * improve "show" method to print the total number of
    interactors, interactions, or complexes in each entry * fix a
    bug related to extracting inhibitor intact IDs for
    interactions

    use UniProt ID instead of IntAct ID to refer interactors from
    interaction

ScISI

     I am streamlining the code so that the output of getMips and
     getGO are identical...this will help to produce one uniform
     output style

     
siggenes

    Added rowWilcoxon, faster than the current method for (at
    least) less than 100 observations.

xcms

     Workaround for ramp/gcc bug (optimization lowered to -O1 for
     ramp.c) Several improvements for findpeaks.centWave Fixed bug
     in joinOverlappingPeaks() Updated ramp.c to v1.38 (from CVS)

     Removed maxGaussErr option in findpeaks.centWave Fixed bug in
     joinOverlappingPeaks() Fixed bug in findpeaks.centWave where
     rt was not assigned correctly

     Removed maxGaussErr option in findpeaks.centWave

     Removed maxGaussErr option in findpeaks.centWave, removed
     debug output in joinOverlappingPeaks

     Fixed mzdata problem under windows (ramp.c v1.39 from CVS)
     Removed workaround for ramp/gcc bug

     

Created by jmacdon
Last modified 2007-06-08 07:33 AM
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2008-05-01

BioC 2.2, consisting of 260 packages and designed to work with R 2.7.0, was released today.

2008-03-04

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