[Bioc-devel] Long-form documentation for DelayedArray?

FYI I also began a project to support an additional backend;
https://github.com/PeteHaitch/matterArray. It's incomplete and may not work
with the current version of DelayedArray (it's ~3 months old and I was
naughtily using some internal functions of DelayedArray). I hope to return
to this soon and I have plans for 1-2 other backends, so some additional
documentation would also be appreciated by me :)

On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 at 08:01 Herv? Pag?s <hpages at fredhutch.org> wrote:

Hi Francesco,

On 10/29/2017 10:10 AM, Francesco Napolitano wrote:

Hi all,

packages submitted to Bioconductor are required to include at least
one vignette. However, it seems that this rule does not hold for some
core packages, such as HDF5Array and DelayedArray. Is there any
special reason for this?

Infrastructure packages are not strictly required to have a vignette.
However that doesn't mean they shouldn't have one ;-)

In particular, I'd like to read more about how to create a backend for
DelayedArray. Is there any documentation available beyond the
reference manual?

I'm guilty. I plan to remedy this ASAP. In the mean time I'll be glad
to help. Note that other people are already working (or planning to
work) on other backends:

Backend for remote HDF5 data:

   https://github.com/vjcitn/RemoteArray

   See issues #1, #2, #3 for some discussion about this.

Backend for GDS files:

   https://github.com/Bioconductor/VariantExperiment/issues/1

Cheers,
H.

Thank you very much,
Francesco.

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