qpmnguyen/cbea

R package for performing enrichment analysis for microbiome relative abundance data using the CBEA approach.

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cbea's Issues

CBEA 1.0.1

• Fix bug where cannot return raw output due to an argument check
• Fix bug where a warning was thrown for low number of permutations (< 100) if permutation is FALSE but output is "raw" (hence not needing number of permutations)
• Fix documentation bug where output of CBEA was not properly communicated
• Add in more complex logic for check_args if output is raw (interacting with other arguments like distr, permutation)
• Fix bug where glance methods on CBEA objects without parametric fits (e.g. when output is raw)
• Add to documentation specifying that sets have to be non-singletons and all elements in all sets have to be in summarized_experiment.
• Add documentation about performance (runtime).
• Fix a bug where printing CBEAout object did not give the correct fit type if parametric = FALSE or output = "raw" is used.
• Fixed a bug where if the output is raw, returns error if parametric = TRUE.

Future improvements for cILR (not actively developed)

• Benchmark different distributions (candidate: Tweedie distribution).
• Incorporate 3rd and 4th moments into optimizing the standard deviation
• Incorporate weighted cILR (similar to PhILR)
• Add a zero heuristic similar to ANCOM

Visualization for sets

Develop some additional visualization functions for enrichment analysis. See examples: sparrow, clusterProfiler

• Heatmaps
• Volcano plots

Improve inference procedure

• Add Empirical Bayes inference procedure.
• Support different distributions of the test statistic (seek out Tweedle distribution - see Mallick et al.)
• Incorporate 3rd and 4th moments to optimize the mixture normal distribution

Improve zero-handling

Add support for other approaches to handling zeroes.

• Heuristic zero-based approaches such as ANCOM-BC.
• Imputation using zCompositions.
• Using weights (e.g. PhILR).

CBEA for multiple data containers

Export CBEA as generics in order to support multiple data container types (phyloseq, TreeSummarizedExperiment, data.frame, matrix).

• phyloseq
• TreeSummarizedExperiment
• data.frame
• matrix

Resolve issues for Bioconductor

Refer to issue here:
Bioconductor/Contributions#2449

The NAMESPACE file

• Selective imports using importFrom instead of import all with import.
  NOTE: BiocCheck somehow wants to import these packages

Documentation

• Vignette should have an Introduction section..

R code

• is() or inherits() instead of class().
  • In file R/cbea_methods.R:
    • at line 133 found ' check_numeric <- vapply(tab, class)'
• message(), warning, stop instead of cat.
  • In file R/cbea_internals.R:
    • at line 236 found ' cat("There are NA values here")'
  • In file R/utils.R:
    • at line 31 found ' cat(paste(n_components, "components!", "\n"))'
    • at line 46 found ' cat(paste(n_components, "components!", "\n"))'
• Vectorize: no unnecessary for loops present.
  • In file R/set_construction.R:
    • at line 124 found ' for (i in seq_along(set_names)) {'
  • In file R/utils.R:
    • at line 34 found ' for (i in seq_len(n_components)) {'
    • at line 49 found ' for (i in seq_len(n_components)) {'
• :: is not suggested in source code unless you can make sure all the packages are imported.

  • In file R/cbea_internals.R:

    • at line 34 found ' R <- purrr::map_dfc(set_list, ~ {'
    • at line 68 found ' R <- tibble::add_column(R, sample_id = rownames(ab_tab), .before = 1)'
    • at line 150 found ' data <- stats::na.omit(data)'
    • at line 152 found ' rlang::abort("More than 50% of the data is NA,'
    • at line 183 found ' params <- rlist::list.append(params, start = init,'
    • at line 185 found ' fit <- do.call(fitdistrplus::fitdist, params)'
    • at line 188 found ' params <- rlist::list.append(params, x = data)'
    • at line 217 found ' rlang::abort("Normal requires both mean and standard deviation")'
    • at line 222 found ' rlang::abort("Mixture normal requires mu,'
    • at line 227 found ' rlang::abort("Each named parameter much have values for'
    • at line 233 found ' param <- rlist::list.append(q = as.vector(scores), param)'
    • at line 279 found ' rlang::abort("The two distributions to combine'
    • at line 284 found ' rlang::abort("Normal requires both mean and standard deviation")'
    • at line 289 found ' rlang::abort("Mixture normal requires mu,'
    • at line 295 found ' rlang::abort("Each named parameter much have values for'
    • at line 340 found ' opt <- stats::optim('

  • In file R/cbea_methods.R:

    • at line 61 found ' tab <- phyloseq::otu_table(obj)'
    • at line 64 found ' if (phyloseq::taxa_are_rows(obj) == TRUE) {'
    • at line 97 found ' tab <- SummarizedExperiment::assays(obj)[[1]]'

  • In file R/set_construction.R:

    • at line 31 found ' table <- phyloseq::tax_table(obj)'
    • at line 33 found ' rlang::abort("Rank name not part of taxonomy table")'
    • at line 50 found ' table <- SummarizedExperiment::rowData(obj)'
    • at line 93 found ' sets <- BiocSet::BiocSet(set_list)'
    • at line 119 found ' dplyr::pull(member) %>%'
    • at line 122 found ' member <- rlang::sym(member)'
    • at line 126 found ' dplyr::filter({{ member }} == set_names[i]) %>%'
    • at line 127 found ' dplyr::pull(id)'
    • at line 130 found ' sets <- BiocSet::BiocSet(set_list)'
    • at line 159 found ' unq_names <- stats::na.omit(unique(all_names))'
    • at line 160 found ' unq_names <- unq_names[!stringr::str_ends(unq_names, "NA")]'
    • at line 162 found ' sets <- purrr::map(unq_names, ~ {'
    • at line 167 found ' sets <- BiocSet::BiocSet(sets)'
    • at line 168 found ' set_sizes <- BiocSet::es_elementset(sets) %>%'
    • at line 169 found ' dplyr::count(set, name = "size")'
    • at line 171 found ' sets <- BiocSet::left_join_set(sets, set_sizes)'
    • at line 172 found ' if (lobstr::obj_size(sets) / 1e6 > 100) {'
    • at line 173 found ' rlang::warn("Object size is larger than 100MB")'
    • at line 217 found ' n_set <- BiocSet::filter_elementset(set, element %in% ref_names)'
    • at line 228 found ' ref_names <- phyloseq::taxa_names(obj)'
    • at line 229 found ' n_set <- BiocSet::filter_elementset(set, element %in% ref_names)'
    • at line 251 found ' tax_ids <- rlang::sym(tax_ids)'
    • at line 252 found ' ref_names <- obj %>% dplyr::pull({{ tax_ids }})'
    • at line 257 found ' n_set <- BiocSet::filter_elementset(set, element %in% ref_names)'
    • at line 272 found ' n_set <- BiocSet::filter_elementset(set, element %in% ref_names)'

  • In file R/utils.R:

    • at line 35 found ' comp[[i]] <- lambda[i] * stats::pnorm(q, mu[i], sigma[i], log.p = log)'
    • at line 50 found ' comp[[i]] <- lambda[i] * stats::dnorm(x, mu[i], sigma[i], log = log)'
• Functional programming: no code repetition.
  • repetition in scale_scores and estimate_distr
    NOTE: Unsure what the repetition is.
  • repetition in const_set and unify_sets
  • repetition in dmnorm and pmnorm
• Function arguments are tested for validity.
  • length of distr should be checked in scale_scores, combine_distr

C and Fortran code

• Makevars and Makefile not within a package.

Create set-based simulation functions

Create set-based simulation functions using sparseDOSSA2 or using customized code that allows for parallelization. Perhaps using function factories. Some options include:

• Control for inter-set correlation
• Set-sizes with different sizes across sets.
• Effect size per set, including number of DA taxa per set

Unify and transform sets based on reference object (phyloseq/TreeSummarizedExperiment)

• Create a set constructor function generic that accepts both phyloseq type objects and TreeSummarizedExperiment type objects.
• Generate a function called unify_sets to trim out elements that are not available in the reference data object.
• Extend const_sets to support dummy matrices (indicator matrices) and element set data frames