I'm developing a package which uses a GmapGenome in calling variants, and therefore am trying to create a small GmapGenome (out of a fasta file for just one chromosome) in my unit tests. The problem I run into, however, is that GmapGenome seems not to work for relative file paths.

I confirmed this for myself in the console by inputting a relative path as a fasta file: 

faf <- FastaFile("./tests/testthat/test_data/ref_genome_fastas/chr5.fa")
GmapGenome(faf, name = "dan_rerio_chr5_test", create=TRUE)

Which yielded this error:

Can't open file ./tests/testthat/test_data/ref_genome_fastas/chr5.fa at /home/kylej13/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3/gmapR/usr/bin//fa_coords line 193.
Opening file ./tests/testthat/test_data/ref_genome_fastas/chr5.fa
/home/kylej13/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3/gmapR/usr/bin//fa_coords   -o ./dan_rerio_chr5_test.coords "./tests/testthat/test_data/ref_genome_fastas/chr5.fa" failed with return code 512 at /home/kylej13/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3/gmapR/usr/bin/gmap_build line 179.
Error in .gmap_build(db = genome(genome), dir = path(directory(genome)),  : 
  system call returned a non-0 status: /home/kylej13/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3/gmapR/usr/bin/gmap_build --db=dan_rerio_chr5_test --dir=/home/kylej13/.local/share/gmap --kmer=15 --sort=none -B /home/kylej13/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3/gmapR/usr/bin/ ./tests/testthat/test_data/ref_genome_fastas/chr5.fa

But when I used an absolute path

faf <- FastaFile("~/MMAPPR2/tests/testthat/test_data/ref_genome_fastas/chr5.fa"

it worked fine.

I think I can work around this by using normalizePath() or something to get the absolute path, but it would be nice to fix this or to know if there's a reason GmapGenome doesn't take relative paths.

Ok, I've fixed it in 1.19.1.