Preparing to R scripts on mox

The moment we’ve all been waiting for: moving over to mox! A week ago I posted this discussion to get more information about the actual process, but I didn’t get any feedback. Turns out this kind of workflow is new for the lab, so I’ll be figuring more stuff out on my own. Thankfully I think I have enough information from mox documentation, so we’ll see what happens.

Installing the latest R version

First things first, installations. I started using these instructions to install R-4.0.5. The first step is making sure you’re not using anaconda python, but I skipped this step to see how far I could get without doing this. When I reached step 5, the UC Berkeley CRAN mirror was not accessible, so I used OSU’s instead. Interestingly, I wasn’t able to download R to the gscratch/srlab/yaaminiv/Rstuff folder, but I could download the files to my user directory.

I ran ./configure --prefix=/gscratch/srlab/yaaminiv/Rinstall from the R-4.0.5 directory and got the following error:

configure: error: PCRE2 library and headers are required, or use --with-pcre1 and PCRE >= 8.32 with UTF-8 support

A quick search lead me to this page, so perhaps I needed to install the package. However, this issue could be linked to me using anaconda python. I posted in this discussion to ask how to remove anaconda python from my ~/.bashrc.

Sam suggested I 1) use conda deactivate since I was in an anaconda environment (indicated by (base)), and 2) try ./configure --prefix=/gscratch/srlab/yaaminiv/Rinstall --with-prce1 based on the error message suggestion. I got the same error even though I wasn’t in an anaconda environment. Following Sam’s instructions, I commented out the conda initialize portion of my ~/.bashrc, logged out of mox, and requested another build node. When I typed which python, I was directed to /usr/bin/python, which meant I was probably good to start again with the installation.

I ran ./configure --prefix=/gscratch/srlab/yaaminiv/Rinstall and got the same error. I tried again with ./configure --prefix=/gscratch/srlab/yaaminiv/Rinstall --with-prce1 and was able to move forward with make! I couldn’t run make install since the /gscratch/srlab quota was exceeded. Sam removed some files and I waited a bit before successfully continuing with make install. I added the newest R version to my path with export PATH=/gscratch/srlab/yaaminiv/Rinstall/bin:$PATH!

Installing methylKit

Now that I had the latest version of R, I needed to install methylKit. I started by trying to install devtools, since I needed to use install_github to install methylKit. When I tried installing devtools on the latest version of R, it says it wasn’t compatible with the newest version! Totally could have loaded an older R version module but I was annoyed that I potentially installed the newest version of R for nothing and decided to call it quits for the day XD

Going forward

1. Install methylKit on mox
2. Run R script on mox
3. Write methods
4. Obtain relatedness matrix and SNPs with EpiDiverse/snp
5. Write results
6. Identify genomic location of DML
7. Determine if RNA should be extracted
8. Determine if larval DNA/RNA should be extracted