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DESeq Error in round(assay(se)) : non-numeric argument to mathematical function

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rodriguez.varenka • 0

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Hi

I essentially have a counts data frame from featurecounts (Rsubread) and its giving me the error seen above.....
Does anyone know how I can check input counts file "test4", find if it needs reformating and how to fix it.

I found this person with similar problem:
http://cbtngs.blogspot.com/

(ddsMat <- DESeqDataSetFromMatrix(countData =test4 ,colData = sampleTable,design = ~Cell ))
Error in round(assay(se)) : non-numeric argument to mathematical function

> dim(test4)
[1] 25368 136
> dim(sampleTable)
[1] 136 4
This is not a fault of row names which I have checked.

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ADD COMMENT • link 9.1 years ago rodriguez.varenka • 0

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Sounds like your test4 data is hosed.

I bet the round function is being called to do a quick & dirty test to see if the input data (test4) are integers.

Is test4 really a data.frame? If so, what is the output of sapply(test4, class)?

ADD REPLY • link 9.1 years ago Steve Lianoglou ★ 13k

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> class(test4)
[1] "data.frame"

sapply(test4, class)
accepted_hits_38_5_1.bam   accepted_hits_38_5_2.bam
                 "numeric"                  "numeric"
accepted_hits_38_5_3.bam   accepted_hits_38_5_4.bam
                 "numeric"                  "numeric"
accepted_hits_38_5_5.bam   accepted_hits_38_5_6.bam
                 "numeric"                  "numeric"
accepted_hits_38_5_7.bam   accepted_hits_38_5_8.bam
                 "numeric"                  "numeric"

etc....

ADD REPLY • link 9.1 years ago rodriguez.varenka • 0

score 0 · Answer 1 · 2015-03-20

> class(test4)
[1] "data.frame"

sapply(test4, class)
accepted_hits_38_5_1.bam   accepted_hits_38_5_2.bam
                 "numeric"                  "numeric"
accepted_hits_38_5_3.bam   accepted_hits_38_5_4.bam
                 "numeric"                  "numeric"
accepted_hits_38_5_5.bam   accepted_hits_38_5_6.bam
                 "numeric"                  "numeric"
accepted_hits_38_5_7.bam   accepted_hits_38_5_8.bam
                 "numeric"                  "numeric"

score 0 · Answer 2 · 2015-03-20

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Michael Love 41k

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I can't reproduce this with the current DESeq2 release. Can you provide a small reproducible example?

Otherwise, can you try converting to matrix first? (I just tested and data.frame input works for me with the release and devel branch).

ADD COMMENT • link 9.1 years ago Michael Love 41k

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Hi Michael

Reproducible example of what exactly? The test4 are just RNA seq counts from feature counts (rsubread).

I followed http://bioconductor.org/help/workflows/rnaseqGene/#construct

Starting from "counts"

ADD REPLY • link 9.1 years ago rodriguez.varenka • 0

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Can you show your sessionInfo() Can you try converting to matrix? as.matrix(test4)

ADD REPLY • link 9.1 years ago Michael Love 41k

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> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.1 Patched (2014-10-16 r66782)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] parallel stats4 stats graphics grDevices datasets utils
[8] methods base

other attached packages:
[1] ggplot2_1.0.0             genefilter_1.48.1
[3] DESeq2_1.6.3              RcppArmadillo_0.4.650.1.1
[5] Rcpp_0.11.5               GenomicRanges_1.18.4
[7] GenomeInfoDb_1.2.4        IRanges_2.0.1
[9] S4Vectors_0.4.0           BiocGenerics_0.12.1
[11] PoiClaClu_1.0.2           RColorBrewer_1.1-2
[13] gplots_2.16.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] acepack_1.3-3.3      annotate_1.44.0      AnnotationDbi_1.28.1
[4] base64enc_0.1-2      BatchJobs_1.5        BBmisc_1.9
[7] Biobase_2.26.0       BiocParallel_1.0.3   bitops_1.0-6
[10] brew_1.0-6           caTools_1.17.1       checkmate_1.5.1
[13] cluster_1.15.3       codetools_0.2-9      colorspace_1.2-6
[16] DBI_0.3.1            digest_0.6.8         fail_1.2
[19] foreach_1.4.2        foreign_0.8-61       Formula_1.2-0
[22] gdata_2.13.3         geneplotter_1.44.0   grid_3.1.1
[25] gtable_0.1.2         gtools_3.4.1         Hmisc_3.15-0
[28] iterators_1.0.7      KernSmooth_2.23-13   lattice_0.20-29
[31] latticeExtra_0.6-26 locfit_1.5-9.1       MASS_7.3-35
[34] munsell_0.4.2        nnet_7.3-8           plyr_1.8.1
[37] proto_0.3-10         reshape2_1.4.1       rpart_4.1-8
[40] RSQLite_1.0.0        scales_0.2.4         sendmailR_1.2-1
[43] splines_3.1.1        stringr_0.6.2        survival_2.37-7
[46] tools_3.1.1          XML_3.98-1.1         xtable_1.7-4
[49] XVector_0.6.0

I have done the conversion to matrix and ran the function again got the same error

as.matrix(test4)
                       accepted_hits_38_5_1.bam accepted_hits_38_5_2.bam
WASH7P                 "   0"                   "    0"
MIR6859-2              "   0"                   "    0"
MIR6859-1              "   0"                   "    0"
FAM138A                "   0"                   "    0"
FAM138F                "   0"                   "    0"
OR4F5                  "   0"                   "    0"
LOC729737              "   0"                   "    0"
LOC100132287           "   0"                   "    0"

(ddsMat <- DESeqDataSetFromMatrix(countData = test4 ,colData = sampleTable,design = ~ Passage ))
Error in round(assay(se)) : non-numeric argument to mathematical function

ADD REPLY • link 9.1 years ago rodriguez.varenka • 0

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Huh, despite the earlier sapply() call which said numeric, these look like character columns. How about:

countMatrix <- sapply(test4, as.numeric)

Or if that doesn't work:

countMatrix <- sapply(as.matrix(test4), as.numeric)

ADD REPLY • link 9.1 years ago Michael Love 41k

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It might be that the previous code snipped posted only showed the results of some of the columns (which appeared to be numeric).

OP, please try again, but use this code snippet so we can see:

table(sapply(test4, class))

You've got some data somewhere that isn't numeric/counts and your whole count matrix is being subsequently turned into a matrix of characters, which is what is giving rise to your non-numeric argument to mathematical function error

ADD REPLY • link 9.1 years ago Steve Lianoglou ★ 13k

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Thanks!! I was able to remove that column!

ADD REPLY • link 9.1 years ago rodriguez.varenka • 0

score 0 · Answer 3 · 2015-03-23

Yes Steve you are correct there appears to be

1 column that is still a "character", whereas the rest are "numeric"

I believe it may have to be with how test4 was loaded into R.

test4=read.table("resultsA3_and_A4.txt",row.names=1,colClasses=c("character","NULL","NULL","NULL","NULL", "NULL", "numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric","numeric"),header=TRUE,as.is=TRUE,fill=TRUE)

score 0 · Answer 4 · 2015-03-23

From my Featurecounts txt file of results the file has the following columns :

Where I want to use Geneid names for rows in the test4 data frame and keep the columns of accepted_hits_38_5_1 .... etc

Geneid

Chr

Start

End

Strand

Length accepted_hits_38_5_1 accepted_hits_38_5_2 etc....

score 0 · Answer 5 · 2015-03-24

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rodriguez.varenka • 0

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Hi Everyone turns out one of my columns was character.... thanks for the comments and solution :)

ADD COMMENT • link 9.1 years ago rodriguez.varenka • 0