Message-ID: <CAF_MpJpPDqHS5yi0kD77kpBtZqUYNn13xeF=SAzR2G1c08P6+Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2018-03-28T16:23:54Z
From: Kieran Campbell
Subject: [Bioc-devel] Tensorflow support for bioconductor packages
Hi all,
Rstudio have released the Tensorflow package for R -
https://tensorflow.rstudio.com/tensorflow/ - and we have started
incorporating it into some of our genomics packages for the heavy
numerical computation.
We would ideally like these to be submitted to Bioconductor, but
there's a custom line required for Tensorflow installation in that
after calling
install.packages("tensorflow")
then Tensorflow must be installed via
tensorflow::install_tensorflow()
which would break package testing if tensorflow was simply imported
into the R package and wasn't already installed. Is there any way to
customise a package installation within Bioconductor to trigger the
tensorflow::install_tensorflow() ?
As more people use tensorflow / deep learning in genomics I can see
this being a problem so it would be good to have a solution in place.
Many thanks,
Kieran Campbell