Changes in version 3.34.0:
o read.idat() can now handle idat files in SNP format.
o New argument 'sort.by' for topSplice().
o diffSplice() now treats any NA geneid as a separate gene with one
exon. Previously all NA geneids were treated as the same gene.
o Bug fixes for plotSplice() which, in some circumstances, was not
highlight significant exons.
o Default value for 'style' in volcanoplot() changed to "p-value"
instead of "p". This doesn't change the behavior of the function.
o volcanoplot() didn't work with MArrayLM objects produced by treat().
Now fixed.
o The gene.info.file argument of alias2SymbolUsingNCBI() will now
optionally accept a data.frame instead of a file name.
o alias2SymbolUsingNCBI() now always produces a data.frame.
Previously a single-column data.frame was returned as a vector.
o Bug fixes to camera() and cameraPR() when 'index' contains character
row names.
o New argument 'restrict.universe' for the default kegga() method.
The default is now not to the restrict the universe to genes with
KEGG annotation.
o goana.default() code is rewritten to more closely match
kegga.default. Slight speed improvement. Prior probabilities are
now computed using the restricted universe with GO annotation
instead of the whole universe.
o Bug fix for kegga() when trend=TRUE or a prior.prob or covariate is
specified. Previously the Down p-values were substantially too
small and the Up p-values were too large.
o plotWithHighlights() checks whether 'status' is a factor and
converts to character.
o Bug fixes for beadCountWeights(). Default is now set correct for
'design' and the function now works correctly when 'y' is an EList
object contain bead standard errors but not standard deviations.
Changes in version 3.32.0:
o New function cameraPR(), which implemented a pre-ranked version of
camera().
o New function alias2SymbolUsingNCBI(), which converts gene aliases or
synonyms into official gene symbols using an NCBI gene-info file.
o New function wsva() for weighted surrogate variable analysis.
o New function coolmap(). This is essentially a wrapper for the
heatmap.2() function in the ggplots package, but with sensible
default settings for genomic log-expression data.
o decideTests() is now an S3 generic function with a default method
and a method for MArrayLM objects. decideTests() now selects all
null hypotheses as rejected if p.value=1.
o length() methods removed all limma data objects (objects of class
EList, EListRaw, RGList, MAList or MArrayLM). length(x) will now
return the number of list components in the object rather than the
number of elements in the expression matrix.
o New argument 'style' for volcanoplot(). The default is now to use
-log10(p-value) for the y-axis instead of the B-statistic.
o New argument 'xlab' for barcodeplot().
o New argument 'col' for plotSA(). plotSA() now longer plots a lowess
curve trend, but if appropriate both high and low outlier variances
are highlighted in a different color.
o Argument 'replace.weights' removed from voomWithQualityWeights().
The function now always produces an EList, similar to voom(). The
default behavior of the function is unchanged.
o barcodeplot() now ranks statistics from low to high, instead of from
high to low, following the usual style of axes in R plots. This
means that left and right are now interchanged.
o plotSA() now plots quarter-root variances instead of
log2(variances).
o Default for 'legend' argument of plotWithHighlights() changed from
"topleft" to "topright".
o fitFDist() now estimates the scale by mean(x) when df2 is estimated
to be Inf. This will make the results from eBayes() less
conservative than before when df.prior=Inf.
o plotSA() now indicates, by way of an open plotting symbol, any
points that have low robust df.prior values.
o Clearer error message from fitFDistRobustly() when some variances
are zero.
o C functions are now registered using R_registerRoutines.
o Bug fix for contrastAsCoef() when there is more than one contrast.
Previously the coefficients for the transformed design matrix were
correct only for the first contrast.
o Bug fix for kegga() when the universe is explicitly specified.
o Bug fix for fitFDistRobustly() when there is an extreme outlier.
Previously floating point underflow for the outlier p-value could
cause an error.
o Bug fix to mroast(), which was ignoring 'geneid' argument.
o Bug fix to printHead() for arrays with 1 column.
Changes in version 3.30.0:
o New function cumOverlap() to analyse the overlap between two ordered
lists.
o New function detectionPValues() to compute detection p-values from
negative control probes.
o New function fitmixture() to estimate genewise fold changes and
expression values from mixture experiments. Previously this
funtion was only available as part of the illumina package
available from http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/illumina
o New function logcosh() to compute log(cosh(x)) accurately without
floating underflow or overflow.
o The default settings for the 'inter.gene.cor' and 'use.neg.cor'
arguments of camera() have been changed. camera() now uses by
default a preset value for the inter-gene correlation. This has the
effect that it tends to rank highly co-regulated,
biologically-interpretable more highly than before.
o New flexibility for the roast() and mroast() functions, similar to
that previously implemented for fry(). The index vector for each
gene set can now be a data.frame, allowing each gene set to have
its own set of gene weights. The indices can now optionally be a
vector of gene names instead of a vector of indices. roast() and
mroast() now support the robust empirical Bayes option of
squeezeVar(). roast() and mroast() can now accept, via '...', any
argument that would be normally passed to lmFit() or eBayes().
o Slight change to the standardize="posterior.sd" method for fry().
o goana(), alias2Symbol() and alias2SymbolTable() now work for any
species for which an Entrez Gene based organism package exists.
o The 'species' argument of kegga() can now accept any Bioconductor
species abbreviation.
o topGO() now breaks ties by the number of genes in the GO Term and by
the name of the Term if the p-values are equal. (This is the same
behavior as topKEGG.)
o New argument 'plot' for plotMDS(), to optionally allow an MDS object
to be returned without making a plot.
o New arguments 'annotation' and 'verbose' for read.idat(). The first
of these to allows users to read any required columns from the
manifest file.
o New arguments 'pch.y' and 'pch.z' for plotRLDF.
o Unnecessary argument 'design' removed from fitted.MArrayLM.
o normalizeBetweenArrays() now checks whether the input 'object' is a
data.frame, and converts to a matrix if possible.
o duplicateCorrelation() now expands weights using expandAsWeights(),
making it consistent with lmFit().
o The lowess line drawn by plotSA() is now more robust with respect to
NA variances.
o More informative error message from voom() when there is only one
row of data.
o More informative error message from getEAWP() and lmFit() when
'object' is a non-normalized data object.
o Update Phipson et al (2016) reference for robust empirical Bayes.
o Bug fix to fitFDistRobustly(), which in some circumstances was
trying to save extra (undocumented) results that had not been
computed.
o Bug fixes for fry() with robust=TRUE or when 'index' has NULL names.
o Bug fix to propTrueNull() when method="hist" and all the p-values
are less than 1/nbins.
o Bug fix to alias2Symbol() with expand.symbol=TRUE.
Changes in version 3.28.0:
o Improved capabilities and performance for fry(). fry() has two new
arguments, 'geneid' and 'standardize'. The index argument of fry()
can now be a list of data.frames containing identifiers and weights
for each set. The options introduced by the standardize argument
allows fry() to be more statistically powerful when genes have
unequal variances. fry() now accepts any arguments that would be
suitable for lmFit() or eBayes(). The 'sort' argument of fry() is
now the same as for mroast().
o roast(), mroast(), fry() and camera() now require the 'design'
matrix to be set. Previously the design matrix defaulted to a
single intercept column.
o Two changes to barcodeplot(): new argument 'alpha' to set
semitransparency of positional bars in some circumstances; the
default value for 'quantiles' is increased slightly.
o kegga() has several new arguments and now supports any species
supported by KEGG. kegga() can now accept annotation as a
data.frame, meaning that it can work from user-supplied annotation.
o New functions getGeneKEGGLinks() and getKEGGPathwayNames() to get
pathway annotation from the rest.kegg website.
o topKEGG() now breaks tied p-values by number of genes in pathway and
by name of pathway.
o goana() now supports species="Pt" (chimpanzee).
o plotRLDF() now produces more complete output and the output is more
completely documented. It can now be used as a complete LDF
analysis for classification based on training data. The argument
'main' has been removed as an explicit argument because it and
other plotting arguments are better passed using the ... facility.
New arguments 'ndim' and 'plot' have been added. The first allows
all possible discriminant functions to be completed even if only
two are plotted. The second allows dicriminant functions to be
computed without a plot.
plotRLDF() also now uses squeezeVar() to estimate how by how much
the within-group covariance matrix is moderated. It has new
arguments 'trend' and 'robust' as options to the empirical Bayes
estimation step. It also has new argument 'var.prior' to allow the
prior variances to be optionally supplied. Argument 'df.prior' can
now be a vector of genewise values.
o New argument 'save.plot' for voom().
o diffSplice() now returns genewise residual variances.
o removeExt() has new 'sep' argument.
o Slightly improved algorithm for producing the df2.shrunk values
returned by fitFDistRobustly(). fitFDistRobustly() now returns
tail.p.value, prob.outlier and df2.outlier as well as previously
returned values. The minimum df.prior value returned by
eBayes(fit, robust=TRUE) may be slightly smaller than previously.
o tmixture.vector() now handles unequal df in a better way. This will
be seen in slightly changed B-statistics from topTable when the
residual or prior df are not all equal.
o If a targets data.frame is provided to read.maimages() through the
'files' argument, then read.maimages() now overwrites its rownames
on output to agree with the column names of the RGList object.
o More explicit handling of namespaces. Functions needed from the
grDevices, graphics, stats and utils packages are now imported
explicitly into the NAMESPACE, avoiding any possible masking by
other packages. goana(), alias2Symbol(), alias2SymbolTable() now
load the name spaces of GO.db the relevant organism package
org.XX.eg.db instead of loading the packages. This keeps the user
search path cleaner.
o Various minor bug fixes and improvements to error messages.
Changes in version 3.26.0:
o New functions kegga() and topKEGG() to conduct KEGG pathway
over-representation analyses. kegga() is an S3 generic function
with a method for MArrayLM fitted model objects as well a default
method. It uses the KEGGREST package to access up-to-date KEGG
pathways using an internet connection.
o goana() with trend now chooses the span of the tricube smoother
based on the number of differentially expressed genes. Larger
spans give smoother trends and are used for smaller numbers of
genes. Arguments 'species' and 'plot' are no longer part of
goana.MArrayLM() and are instead passed if present in a call to
goana.default().
o topGO() has a new argument 'truncate.term' to limit number of
characters appearing in a column of the output data.frame.
o Improved power for the romer() function. The empirical Bayes
shrinkage of the residuals, removed on 4 April, has been
re-instated in a corrected form. It can optionally be turned off
using the 'shrink.resid' argument.
o camera() has a new argument inter.gene.cor. This allows a preset
inter gene correlation to be set for each test test, resulting in
potentially less conservative tests. camera() no longer gives NA
results when a gene has a residual variance exactly zero.
o mroast() now sorts significant gene sets by proportion of genes
changing as well as by p-value and set size. When p-values are
equal, sets with a higher proportion of changing genes will now
rank higher in ordered results. The contrast argument of roast()
can now optionally be a character string giving the name of a
column of the design matrix.
o fry() now produces "mixed" (non-directional) p-values and FDRs as
well as directional p-values and FDRs. Bug fix for fry() when the
gene set has a small number of genes.
o camera(), fry(), mroast() and romer() now give more informative
error messages when the index list is empty.
o Speedup for ids2indices().
o tricubeMovingAverage() has new argument 'power' and old argument
'full.length' is removed. tricubeMovingAverage() now checks
whether span is correctly specified. It now gives identical
results for any span>=1 or any span<=0.
o lmFit() and friends now always produce an output component 'rank'
that returns the column rank of the design matrix. Previously it
depended on the options used whether this component was given.
o lmFit() now assumes that if the 'object' of expression values is a
simple vector, that it represents a single gene rather than a
single sample.
o lmFit() now always treats infinite expression values as NA. In the
past, this was done somewhat inconsistently.
o Checking for NA coefficients in lmFit() is now done more
efficiently, meaning that lmFit() is now faster on large datasets.
o More informative error message from lmscFit() when correlation is
NA.
o getEAWP() now works on all eSet objects, not just ExpressionSet,
provided there is an data element called "exprs". This allows all
the linear modelling functions to handle general eSet objects.
o plotMD() can now accept arguments 'array' or 'coef' as appropriate
as synonyms for 'column'. This may help users transitioning from
plotMA ot plotMD.
o Arguments hi.pch, hi.col and hi.cex of plotWithHighlights() renamed
to hl.pch, hl.col and hl.cex. ('hl' is short for 'highlight'.)
o New 'tolerance' argument for read.idat() to allow manifest and idat
to differ by a certain number of probes
o The 'genes' argument of controlStatus() now accepts EListRaw or
Elist objects.
o All data classes (EListRaw, EList, RGList, MAList, MArrayLM) now
require two arguments for subsetting. This restores the behavior
in limma version 3.19.10 and earlier. In limma 3.19.11 through
3.25.13, subsetting by one argument y[i] was equivalent to y[i,].
This will now give an error message.
o The dimnames<- method for EListRaw objects now sets rownames for the
background matrix Eb as well as for the foreground matrix E.
o avearrays() now gives a more informative error message if input
argument 'x' is not a matrix.
o auROC() now allows for tied stat values.
o Bug fix to write.fit() when method="global" and fit contains more
than one column.
Changes in version 3.24.0:
o Limma review article (Ritchie et al, Nucleic Acids Research, 2015)
is now published, and becomes the primary citation for limma.
References in User's Guide, help files and CITATION have been
updated to refer to this article.
o New function plotMD() for mean-difference plots. This will take
over the functionality of the plotMA() function.
o mdplot() has new arguments 'columns' and 'main'.
o Arguments 'pch', 'cex' and 'col' of plotWithHighlights() renamed to
'hi.pch', 'hi.cex' and 'hi.col'. Improved help page for
plotWithHighlights().
o plot() methods removed for EList, MAList and MArrayLM objects. Use
plotMD() instead.
o New function fry() provides a fast version of mroast() when there is
little heteroscedasticity between genes.
o Minor change to mroast() output so that FDR values are never smaller
than p-values, even when mid-p-values are used.
o camera(), roast(), mroast() and romer() now give a warning if any
arguments found in ... are not used.
o romer() is now an S3 generic function. Speed improvements for
romer() when the "mean" or "floormean" set statistics are used. The
empirical Bayes shrinkage of the residuals, introduced 5 October
2009, has been removed - this means that romer() results will
revert to being somewhat more conservative.
o topGO() can now sort gene ontology results by several p-value
columns at once, using the minimum of the columns. The default is
now to sort results using all the p-value columns found in the
results instead of just by the first column.
o goana() has new arguments 'plot' and 'covariate'. The plot argument
allows users to view any estimated trend in the genewise
significance values. The help files goana.Rd and goana.MArrayLM.Rd
are consolidated into one file.
o plotDensities() has a new argument 'legend', allowing user to
reposition the legend.
o voomWithQualityWeights() has a new argument 'col', allowing the
barplot of sample weights to be colour-coded.
o Improvements and bug fixes to plotMDS(). plotMDS now stores
'axislabel', depending on the method used to compute distances, and
uses this to make more informative axis labels. plotMDS now traps
problems when the distances are all zero or if one or more of the
dimensions are degenerate. Also, a bug when gene.selection="common"
and top=nrow(x) has been fixed.
o The arguments for predFCm() have been renamed. Old argument
'VarRel' replaced by logical argument 'var.indep.of.fc'. Old
argument 'prop' replaced by 'all.de'. New argument
'prop.true.null.method' passes through method to propTrueNull().
o vennDiagram() now fills circles with specified colors.
o plotMA() now has a method for EListRaw objects.
o voomWithQualityWeights() now stores the sample weights in the output
EList object. The values stored in $weights are unchanged, they
are still the combined observation and sample weights.
o nec() and neqc() now remove the background Eb values if they exist
in the EListRaw object.
o Acknowledgements edited in User's Guide.
o fix URLs for a number of references in help pages.
o Improvements to lowess C code.
o When loading suggested packages within function calls, usages of
require() have been converted to requireNamespace() wherever
possible. Functions from suggested packages are called using `::'.
o topTable() now gives an information error message if eBayes() or
treat() have not already been run on the fitted model object.
o genas() now gives an error message when applied to fitted model for
which the coefficient correlations are gene-specific.
o Fix a bug in the MAList method for plotDensities that was introduced
with the use of NextMethod() in version 3.21.16.
Changes in version 3.22.0:
o New functions goana() and topGO() provide gene ontology analyses of
differentially genes from a linear model fit. The tests include the
ability to adjust for gene length or abundance biases in
differential expression detection, similar to the goseq package.
o Improvements to diffSplice. diffSplice() now calculates Simes
adjusted p-values for gene level inferences, in addition to the
exon level t-tests and gene level F-tests. topSplice() now has
three ranking methods ("simes", "F" or "t"), with "simes" now
becoming the default. diffSplice() also has a new argument 'robust'
giving access to robust empirical Bayes variance moderation.
o New function plotExons() to plot log-fold-changes by exon for a
given gene.
o New function voomWithQualityWeights() allows users to estimate
sample quality weights or allow for heteroscedasticity between
treatment groups when doing an RNA-seq analysis.
o Improvement to arrayQualightyWeights(). It now has a new argument
'var.design' which allows users to model variability by treatment
group or other covariates.
o Improved plotting for voomaByGroup().
o barcodeplot() can now plot different weights for different genes in
the set.
o Improvements to roast() and mroast(). The directional (up and down)
tests done by roast() now use both the original rotations and their
opposite signs, effectively doubling the number of effective
rotations for no additional computational cost. The two-sided tests
are now done explicitly by rotation instead of doubling the
smallest one-sided p-value. The two-sided p-value is now called
"UpOrDown" in the roast() output. Both functions now use a fast
approximation to convert t-statistics into z-scores, making the
functions much faster when the number of rotations or the number of
genes is large. The contrast argument can now optionally be a
character string giving a column name of the design matrix.
o zscoreT() can optionally use a fast approximation instead of the
slower exact calculation.
o symbols2indices() renamed to ids2indices().
o Improvements to removeBatchEffect(). It can now take into account
weights and other arguments that will affect the linear model fit.
It can now accept any arguments that would be acceptable for
lmFit(). The behavior of removeBatchEffect() with design supplied
has also changed so that it is now consistent with that of lmFit()
when modelling batches as additive effects. Previously batch
adjustments were made only within the treatment levels defined by
the design matrix.
o New function plotWithHighlights(), which is now used as the
low-level function for plotMA() and plot() methods for limma data
objects.
o The definition of the M and A axes for an MA-plot of single channel
data is changed slightly. Previously the A-axis was the average of
all arrays in the dataset - this has been definition since MA-plots
were introduced for single channel data in April 2003. Now an
artificial array is formed by averaging all arrays other than the
one to be plotted. Then a mean-difference plot is formed from the
specified array and the artificial array. This change ensures the
specified and artificial arrays are computed from independent data,
and ensures the MA-plot will reduce to a correct mean-difference
plot when there are just two arrays in the dataset.
o plotMDS() can now optionally plot samples using symbols instead of
text labels. It no longer has a 'col' argument, which instead is
handled by ....
o vennDiagram() now supports circles of different colors for any
number of circles. Previously this was supported only up to three
sets.
o getEAWP() will now find a weights matrix in an ExpressionSet object
if it exists.
o update to helpMethods().
o Substantial updates to the two RNA-seq case studies in the User's
Guide. In both cases, the short read data has been realigned and
resummarized.
o Improvements to many Rd files. Many keyword entries have been
revised. Many usage and example lines been reformated to avoid over
long lines.
o biocViews keywords updated.
o Subsetting columns of a MArrayLM object no longer subsets the design
matrix.
o Bug fix for read.maimages: default value for 'quote' was not being
set correctly for source="agilent.mean" or source="agilent.median".
o Bug fix to topTableF() and topTable(). The ordering of Amean values
was sometimes incorrect when sorting by F-statistic and a lfc or
p.value filter had been set.
o Bug fix to read.ilmn() when sep=",".
Changes in version 3.20.0:
o New functions diffSplice(), topSplice() and plotSplice() provide
functionality to analyse differential splicing using exon-level
expression data from either microarrays or RNA-seq.
o New Pasilla case study added to User's Guide, demonstrating
differential splicing analysis of RNA-seq data.
o new function weightedLowess() which fits a lowess curve with prior
weights. Unlike previous implementations of lowess or loess, the
weights are used in calculating which neighbouring points to
include in each local regression as well as in the local regression
itself.
o weightedLoess() now becomes the default method used by loessFit() to
fit the loess curve when there are weights. The previous locfit and
loess() methods are offered as options.
o linear model fit functions lm.series(), mrlm.series() and
gls.series() no longer drop the dimensions of the components of the
fitted object when there is just coefficient or just one gene.
Previously this was done inconsistently in some cases but not
others. Now the matrix components always keep dimensions.
o The functions lmFit(), eBayes() and tmixture.vector() now work even
when there is just one gene (one row of data).
o New function subsetListOfArrays(), which is used to simplify the
subsetting code for RGList, MAList, EList, EListRaw and MArrayLM
objects.
o new function tricubeMovingAverage() for smoothing a time series.
o barcodeplot() has a new option to add enrichment worms to the plot,
making use of tricubeMovingAverage().
o New plot() methods for RGList, MAList, EList and MArrayLM class
objects. In each case, this produces a similar result to plotMA().
When using plot() or plotMA() on an MArrayLM object, the column is
now specified by the 'coef' argument instead of by 'array'.
o plotMA3by2() now works on single channel data objects as well as on
MAList objects.
o New function read.idat() to read files from Illumina expression
beadarrays in IDAT format.
o The ctrlpath argument of read.ilmn() now defaults to the same as
path for regular probes. This means that only one path setting is
required if the regular and control probe profiles are in the same
directory.
o read.ilmn() now sets the same probe IDs as rownames for both the
expression matrix E and the annotation data.frame genes, providing
that the probe IDs are unique.
o beadCountWeights() can now work with either probe-wise standard
errors or probe-wise standard deviations.
o treat() has new arguments robust and winsor.tail.p which are passed
through to robust empirical Bayes estimation.
o topTreat() now includes ... argument which is passed to topTable().
o topTable() with confint=TRUE now produces confidence intervals based
on the t-distribution instead of on the normal distribution. It
also now accepts a numeric value for the confint argument to
specify a confidence level other the default of 0.95.
o topTable() will now work on an MArrayLM fit object that is missing
the lods component, for example as produced by treat().
o roast() and mroast() now permit array weights and observation
weights to both be specified.
o camera(), roast() and mroast() now use getEAWP() to interpret the
data object. This means that they now work on any class of data
object that lmFit() will.
o romer() now uses propTrueNull(method="lfdr") instead of convest().
This makes it substantially faster when the number of genes is
large.
o genas() now uses fit$df.total from the MArrayLM object. This
prevents df.total from exceeding the total pooled residual df for
the dataset. The genas() results will change slightly for datasets
for which df.prior was very lage.
o plotDensities() is now an S3 generic function with methods for
RGList, MAList, EListRaw and EList objects.
o plotFB is now an S3 generic function with methods for RGList and
EList data objects.
o New topic help pages 10GeneSetTests.Rd and 11RNAseq.Rd. The page
10Other.Rd is deleted. All topic help pages are now listed under
'See also' in the package introduction page accessible by ?limma.
o avereps() was never intended to be applied to RGList or EListRaw
objects. It now gives an error when applied to these objects
instead of returning a matrix of questionable value.
o Bug fix: fitFDistRobustly() was failing when there were missing
values or zero df values and covariate was NULL.
o Bug fix: vennDiagram() wasn't passing extra arguments (...) to
plot() when the number of sets was greater than 3.
o Bug fix to topTreat(). Rownames were incorrectly ordered when p<1.
o bug fix to genas(), which was not handling vector df.prior correctly
when the fit object was generated using robust=TRUE.
o bug fix to squeezeVar(). Previously there was an error when
robust=TRUE and trend=FALSE and some of the estimated df.prior were
infinite.
o bug fix to topTable() and topTableF() when sorting by F-statistic
combined with p-value or lfc cutoffs.
Changes in version 3.18.0:
o new function beadCountWeights() to estimate quantitative weights
from the bead counts for each probe for Illumina BeadArrays.
o New function contrastAsCoef(), which reforms a design matrix so that
one or more specified contrasts become coefficients. This function
is called by roast().
o plotMA() is now an S3 generic function.
o The legend argument to plotMA() can now take a character value
giving the position to place the legend.
o toptable(), topTable() and topTreat() now preserve the rownames of
the fit object, unless the fit object has duplicated names, in
which case the rownames are copied to the ID column. Empty
rownames are replaced with 1:nrow(fit).
o read.ilmn() no longer adds the probe IDs to the gene annotation
data.frame, leaving them instead as rownames of the expression
matrix. It longer creates a targets file since the sample names
are already preserved as column names of the expression matrix.
o loessFit() now uses the locfit.raw in the locfit package when
weights are provided instead of loess in the stats package. The
function now runs very efficiently even on very long data vectors.
The output results will change slightly when weights are provided.
o voom() now outputs lib.size as a column of targets instead of as a
separate component.
o cbind for EList and EListRaw objects now recognizes a design matrix
if it is present.
o plotMDS() now checks explicitly that there are at least 3 samples to
plot.
o normexp.fit.detection.p() now tolerates some non-monotonicity in the
detection p-pvalues as a function of expression.
o fitFDistRobustly() now uses a smoother for the smallest df.prior
values. This may result in smaller tail values than before when a
group of input x values appear to be outliers but the largest value
is not individually a stand-out value.
o New merge methods for EList and EListRaw objects.
o topTable() and treat() now give more informative error messages when
the argument fit is not a valid MArrayLM object.
o roast() now calls mroast() if the index vector is a list. Bug fix to
mroast(), which had been ignoring the weights.
o Updates to genas() function. argument chooseMethod renamed to subset
and option "n" renamed to "all". Function now returns NA results
and a message when no genes satisfy the criterion for inclusion in
the analysis. Some editing of help page and streamlining of code.
o Roles of contributors now specified in author field of DESCRIPTION
file using standard codes.
o Additions and updates to references in the help pages. Removed
defunct Berkeley Press links to published Smyth (2004) article in
several Rd files. Replacing with link to Preprint. Added link to
Phipson (2013) thesis in two Rd files. Add Majewski et al reference
to genas.Rd. Add Phipson et al and Sartor et al references to
squeezeVar.Rd. Add Phipson et al reference to eBayes.Rd. Update
lmscFit and voom references.
o Update mammmary stem cell case study in User's Guide. As well as
reflecting changes to read.ilmn() and topTable(), this now
demonstrates how to find signature genes for particular cell type.
o documentation about rownames and column names and the use of
rownames(fit) and colnames(fit) added to lmFit.Rd.
o improvements to help pages for data classes.
o Edits to normalizeBetweenArrays help page (i) to further clarify
which normalization methods are available for single-channel data
and which are available for two-color data and (ii) to give a cross
citation to the neqc() function for Illumina BeadChips.
o Edits to voomaByGroup help page.
o duplicateCorrelation() now uses the weights matrix when block is
set. Previously the weights were ignored when block was used.
o Bug fix to subsetting for MArrayLM objects: the df.total component
was not being subsetted.
o bug fix to eBayes(robust=TRUE) when some of the df.prior values are
infinite.
o Bug fix to ebayes(), which was not passing the 'robust' argument
correctly on to squeezeVar().
o Bug fix to fitFDistRobustly(), which affected the estimated scale
when df2 is estimated to be Inf.
Changes in version 3.16.0:
o New section in User's Guide on time course experiments with many
time points. The RNA-seq case study in User's Guide has also been
revised.
o Improvements to various help pages including read.maimages.Rd,
squeezeVar.Rd, fitFDist.Rd, trigammaInverse.Rd,
normalizeRobustSpline.Rd, genas.Rd and roast.Rd. Previously the
meaning of source="agilent" was mis-stated in read.maimages.Rd.
o New robust method for estimating the empirical Bayes prior, called
by specifying robust=TRUE in the call to eBayes(). When this is
TRUE the output df.prior is now a vector instead of a scalar.
o New function fitFDistRobustly() estimates the parameters of a scaled
F-distribution robustly using Winsorized values. Outlier
observations receive smaller values for df.prior than non-outliers.
This permits robust methods for squeezeVar(), ebayes() and
eBayes(), all of which now have a new argument wins.tail.p to
specify the tail proportions for Winsorizing.
o fitFDist() now permits infinite values for the covariate. It also
gracefully handles cases where the covariate takes only a small
number of distinct values. Similarly for eBayes() and squeezeVar()
that call fitFDist().
o All the functions that perform gene set tests have been revised to
make the input and output formats more consistent.
roast(), mroast() and camera() are now S3 generic functions, with
methods for EList and MAList objects.
The order of arguments has been changed for roast(), mroast() and
camera() so that the first argument is now y.
All functions that perform gene sets now use the argument 'index'
to specify which genes are included in the test set. Previously
this argument was called 'iset' for roast() and romer() and
'indices' for camera().
camera() and mroast() now produce a data.frames. Instead of
separate up and down p-value columns, there is now a two-sided
p-value and a column indicating direction of change. There are new
columns giving FDR values and the number of genes in each set.
There is a new argument 'sort' to indicate whether output results
should be sorted by p-value.
mroast() has a new argument 'weights' for observational weights, to
bring it into line with roast(),
o vennDiagram() can now plot up to five sets (previously limited to
three).
o genas() now optionally draws a plot in which ellipses are used to
represent the technical and biological components of correlation.
It also now has the ability to automatically select which probes
are used for the correlation analysis, and a new argument controls
the method used for this selection.
o New options for the method argument of propTrueNull().
o New functions vooma() and voomaByGroup() for computing precision
weights based on a mean-variance trend. vooma() is similar to
voom() but for microarray data instead of RNA-Seq. voomaByGroup()
allows different groups to have systematically different variances.
o New function predFCm() to compute predictive (shrunk) log fold
changes.
o New function fitGammaIntercept() for estimating the intercept of a
gamma glm with an offset. Used by genas().
o New function zscoreHyper() for computing z-score equivalents of
deviates from a hypergeometric distribution.
o New function qqf() for qq-plots relative to an F-distribution.
o normalizeWithinArrays() with method="robustspline" now longer
requires the layout argument to be set. The layout argument for
normalizeRobustSpline() now defaults to a single print-tip group.
o fitFDist() now coerces degrees of freedom df1 below 1e-15 to zero.
o Due to changes in R, loessFit() no longer makes direct calls to
foreign language code in the stats package, and instead calls R
functions. Unfortunately, this makes loessFit() about 25-30% slower
than previously when weights are used.
o Bug fix to read.maimages(), which was not accepting
source="agilent.mean".
o Bug fix for contrasts.fit() when the covariance matrix of the
coefficients (cov.coefficients) is not found in the fitted model
object. This situation doesn't arise using any of the standard
limma analysis pipelines.
o Bug fix to lmscFit() when the residual df = 1.
o Bug fix to readTargets() to avoid warning message when targets$Label
is used to set row names but targets$Label contains duplicated
entries.
Changes in version 3.14.0:
o limma license upgraded to GPL (>=2) instead of LGPL to match R
itself.
o Many updates to the User's Guide. Sections have been added on
reading single channel Agilent and Illumina data. The chapter on
experimental designs has been split into three chapters on
single-channel, common reference and two-color designs
respectively. The material on the fixed effect approach to
technical replication has been deleted. There are new sections on
nested interactions for factorial designs and on multi-level
designs.
o The links to the Apoa1, Weaver and Bob1 datasets in the User's Guide
have been updated to help users download the data themselves if
they wish to repeat the case study analyses.
o The help page for camera() now cites published paper Wu and Smyth
(NAR, 2012). In view of the results of this paper, the claim is no
longer made on help page for geneSetTest() that genes might be
treated as independent when the experimental units are genetically
identical mice.
o Minor edits to CITATION file.
o New function propTrueNull() for fast estimation of the proportion of
true null hypotheses from a vector of p-values.
o New function zscore() to compute z-score equivalents for deviates
from any continuous distribution. Includes the functionality of the
older functions zscoreGamma() and zscoreT() as special cases.
o roast() now accepts observation level weights, through a new
argument 'weights'.
o loessFit() now applies minimum and maximum bounds by default to
avoid zero or infinite weights. Equal weights are now treated as
if the weights were NULL, even all zero weights, so that the lowess
code is called instead of the loess code.
o When there are no weights, loessFit() now extracts residuals
directly from the C code output instead of computing in R.
o fitFDist() now permits missing values for x or zero values for df1
even when there is a covariate. This means that squeezeVar() and
eBayes() now work with trends even when not all the data values are
informative.
o New argument 'file' for convest(), implementing edits contributed by
Marcus Davy. Arguments doplot and dereport renamed to 'plot' and
'report'.
o Two improvements for plotMDS(). It now coerces labels to be
character, and now makes extra room on the plot when the text
labels are wide.
o plotMDS() no longer gives an error when the requested number of top
genes is greater than the total number of rows of data.
o Code speed-up for alias2SymbolTable()
o any(duplicated()) replaced by anyDuplicated() in several functions.
o Fix to voom() so that it computes weights correctly even when the
design matrix is not of full rank.
o Bug fix for roast() when the fitted model has only one coefficient.
Changes in version 3.12.0:
o read.maimages() with source="agilent" now reads median foreground
estimates instead of mean foreground. New option source=
"agilent.mean" preserves earlier meaning of source="agilent".
o Agilent single-channel case study added to User's Guide.
o removeBatchEffect() now corrects for continuous covariates as well
as qualitative factors.
o new function camera() performs competitive gene set tests while
adjusting for inter-gene correlation.
o new function interGeneCorrelation() estimates the average intergene
correlation for a set of genes.
o columns in output from roast() have been re-ordered.
o arguments 'selected' and 'selected2' renamed to 'index' and 'index2'
in functions barcodeplot(), geneSetTest() and wilcoxGST().
o default labels for barcodeplot() are now somewhat more explicit.
o new function rankSumTestWithCorrelation extends the
Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test to allow for correlation between cases
in one of the groups. geneSetTest() now calls this function
instead of wilcox.test, with a consequence improvement in speed.
o The lfc (log-fold-change) cutoff argument of topTable() is now
applied to the minimum absolute logFC when ranking by F-statistic.
Previously lfc was only used when ranking by t-statistic.
o new methods "fast" and "affy" for normalizeCyclicLoess(), with
"fast" becoming the default method. New argument 'cyclic.method'
for normalizeBetweenArrays() gives access to the different cyclic
loess methods.
o There were problems with using the argument gene.weights in
mroast(). This argument is now permitted to be of the same length
as the number of probes in the data set. It is then automatically
subsetted for each gene set.
o mroast() now uses mid-p-values by default when adjusting for
multiple testing.
o neqc(), nec() and normexp.fit.control() now give user-friendly error
messages when no negative control probes or no regular probes are
found.
Changes in version 3.10.0:
o New function voom() allows RNA-Seq experiments to be analysed using
the standard limma pipeline. An RNA-Seq case study is added to
User's Guide.
o treat(), roast() and mroast() can now estimate and work with a trend
on the prior variance, bringing them into line with eBayes().
o barcodeplot() and barcodeplot2() merged into one function.
o removeBatchEffect() can now correct for two batch factors.
o plotMDS is now an S3 generic function. This allows MDS plots to be
redrawn with new labels without needing to repeat the distance or
scaling calculations. New S4 class "MDS" to hold the
multidimensional scaling information output from plotMDS.
o getEAWP() now gets probe annotation from the expression rownames of
an EList object, if no other probe annotation is available.
o topRomer() now ranks gene sets by secondary columns as well the
primary criterion specified, to give a more meaningful ranking when
the p-values are tied.
o wilcoxGST() now accepts signed or unsigned test statistics. Change
to p-value calculation in geneSetTest() when rank.only=FALSE to
avoid zero p-values and follow recommendation of Phipson and Smyth
(SAGMB, 2010).
o plotMA() now recognizes ElistRaw and EList objects appropriately.
o Default span for normalizeCyclicLoess increased from 0.4 to 0.7.
Speed improved when weights=NULL.
o Weaver case study (Section 11.5) in User's Guide is updated and
rewritten. Data classes ElistRaw and Elist now described in the
quick start section of the User's Guide. Other minor updates to
User's Guide.
o Bug fix for normalizeBetweenArrays() when object is an EListRaw and
method="cyclicloess". Previously this function was applying
cyclicloess to the raw intensities, then logging. Now it logs
first, then applies cyclicloess.
o Bug fix to avereps() for EList objects x when x$other is not empty.