pmartR

This R package provides functionality for quality control processing, statistical analysis and visualization of mass spectrometry (MS) omics data, in particular proteomic (either at the peptide or the protein level; isobaric labeled or unlabled), lipidomic, and metabolomic data. This includes data transformation, specification of groups that are to be compared against each other, filtering of feature and/or samples, data normalization, data summarization (correlation, PCA), and statistical comparisons of groups of interest (ANOVA and/or independence of missing data tests). Example data to be used with this packages can be found in pmartRdata.

Installation:

This package makes use of several packages hosted on BioConductor. If you are encountering warnings about unavailable BioConductor packages such as pcaMethods, you may need to add them to options("repos"):

if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

options("repos" = BiocManager::repositories())

(Recommended) Install from CRAN:

install.packages("pmartR")

# or 

BiocManager::install("pmartR")

If you are on Mac/Windows and have a recent R version, you can skip compilation by installing from binaries, see the pmartR CRAN page for available binaries.

install.packages("pmartR", type = "binary")

# or 

BiocManager::install("pmartR", type = "binary")

To install the latest release:

devtools::install_github("pmartR/pmartR@*release")

To install a specific release, say v2.4.0:

devtools::install_github("pmartR/pmartR@v2.4.0")

(Not recommended, since these changes are likely still being tested) You can also install the latest changes to master:

devtools::install_github("pmartR/pmartR")

Problems with rcppArmadillo and gfortran on mac

There is a problem that causes pmartR to fail compiling cpp code, which has something to do with rcppArmadillo and certain installations of gfortran. See these posts that try to explain the issue: 1 2 3. The simplest solution if you are on Mac/Windows and have a recent R version is to install from pre-built binaries (see installation section). If you cannot install from binaries, two solutions we have found are:

1. Install gfortran from a recommended source (not homebrew):
   • This CRAN-approved resource for build tools on mac lists two versions of gfortran and how to install them.
   • On Catalina 10.15.7 I downloaded and installed gfortran 8.2 from the link provided in this blog post
2. When using the homebrew gfortran installation, add the line FLIBS = -L`gfortran -print-file-name=libgfortran.dylib | xargs dirname` to ~/.R/Makevars (a plain text file with no extention)

gfortran and Apple silicon (M1/M2 chips)

There are similarly issues with compilation in newer Mac chips. We recommend to install gcc-13 from homebrew brew install gcc or the universal version from https://mac.r-project.org/tools/.

Additionally, some users experience errors with ld: Assertion failed ... as seen here. One solution is to use the old linker by making sure gcc uses the flag -ld64 (Xcode docs). To do this, you can edit ~/.R/Makevars to include this flag, for example by appending it to LDFLAGS with +=:

# in ~/.R/Makevars
LDFLAGS+=-ld64

or specifying it in your compiler command:

# in ~/.R/Makevars
CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc -ld64

Tutorial:

To get started, see the package documentation and function reference located here.

Data:

Example peptide (both unlabeled and isobaric labeled), protein, metabolite and lipid data are available in the pmartRdata package available on Github, here

Contributing

See the contributing docs.

Citation:

To cite this package, please the following:

Degnan, D. J.; Stratton, K. G.; Richardson, R.; Claborne, D.; Martin, E. A.; Johnson, N. A.; Leach, D.; Webb-Robertson, B.-J. M.; Bramer, L. M. PmartR 2.0: A Quality Control, Visualization, and Statistics Pipeline for Multiple Omics Datatypes. J. Proteome Res. 2023, 22 (2), 570–576. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.2c00610.

BibTex:

@article{degnan2023pmartr,
  title={pmartR 2.0: A Quality Control, Visualization, and Statistics Pipeline for Multiple Omics Datatypes},
  author={Degnan, David J and Stratton, Kelly G and Richardson, Rachel and Claborne, Daniel and Martin, Evan A and Johnson, Nathan A and Leach, Damon and Webb-Robertson, Bobbie-Jo M and Bramer, Lisa M},
  doi = {10.1021/acs.jproteome.2c00610},
  journal={Journal of Proteome Research},
  year={2023},
  publisher={ACS Publications}
}

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