Error with samplesheet.csv with two column headers that have prefix in common

[aghr]

Description of the bug

Pipeline works fine with samplesheet.csv with two columns with column headers condition and Xcondition2, but it throws error with condition and condition2. All other input files and parameters were identical.

Error shown below.

Command used and terminal output

ERROR ~ Error executing process > 'NFCORE_DIFFERENTIALABUNDANCE:DIFFERENTIALABUNDANCE:CUSTOM_TABULARTO
GSEACLS (inv_vs_wt_e125)'                                                                             

Caused by:
  Process `NFCORE_DIFFERENTIALABUNDANCE:DIFFERENTIALABUNDANCE:CUSTOM_TABULARTOGSEACLS (inv_vs_wt_e125)
` terminated with an error exit status (2)

Command executed:

  cls_file=inv_vs_wt_e125.cls
  
  column_number=$(cat samplesheet.sample_metadata.tsv | head -n 1 | tr '\t' "\n" | grep -En "^conditio
n" | awk -F':' '{print $1}')
  classes=$(tail -n +2 samplesheet.sample_metadata.tsv | awk -F'\t' '{print $'$column_number'}')
  unique_classes=$(echo -e "$classes" | awk '!x[$0]++')
  
  echo -e "$(echo -e "$classes" | wc -l) $(echo -e "$unique_classes" | wc -l) 1" > $cls_file
  echo -e "#$(echo -e "$unique_classes" | tr '\n' ' ')" | sed "s/ $//" >> $cls_file
  echo -e "$classes" | tr '\n' ' ' | sed "s/ $//" >> $cls_file
  echo -e "\n" >> $cls_file
  
  
  cat <<-END_VERSIONS > versions.yml
  "NFCORE_DIFFERENTIALABUNDANCE:DIFFERENTIALABUNDANCE:CUSTOM_TABULARTOGSEACLS":
      bash: $(echo $(bash --version | grep -Eo 'version [[:alnum:].]+' | sed 's/version //'))
  END_VERSIONS

Command exit status:
  2

Command output:
  (empty)

Command error:
  awk: line 2: missing } near end of file

Work dir:
  XXX

Tip: you can replicate the issue by changing to the process work dir and entering the command `bash .command.run`

 -- Check '.nextflow.log' file for details

Relevant files

No response

System information

version 23.10.0 build 5889 (created 15-10-2023 15:07 UTC (17:07 CEST))
Linux desktop
CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908
local execution
with singularity container
version of nfcore diffabundance: 1.4.0

[BEFH]

I had this issue too. Probably can be fixed by changing this:

column_number=\$(cat $samples | head -n 1 | tr '$separator' "\\n" | grep -En "^$variable" | awk -F':' '{print \$1}')

to this:

column_number=\$(cat $samples | head -n 1 | tr '$separator' "\\n" | grep -En "^$variable\$" | awk -F':' '{print \$1}')

in https://github.com/nf-core/differentialabundance/blob/master/modules/nf-core/custom/tabulartogseacls/main.nf

But the file could probably use some fixing up in general. e.g. for that line:

column_number=\$(head -n 1 $samples | tr '$separator' "\\n" | grep -En "^$variable\$" | cut -d: -f1)

I'm also unsure how many backslashes it needs.

[BEFH]

Alternatively, you can replace line 30 and 31 with this:

classes=\$(awk -F '$separator' 'NR==1 { for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) if (\$i == $variable) {lnum = i; next}} 1 {print \$lnum}' $samples)

One-liner with no piping.

[asp8200]

Which branch was this error observed on? Is there a simple test nf-cmd to trigger the error?

[jenmuell]

To come back to the question of @asp8200, on which branch did you observe the error? I could only recreate the error on the main branch. If you pull the pipeline from the dev branch this should solve the issue. I could not recreate the error on the dev branch.

[BEFH]

Looks like it's already fixed here: https://github.com/nf-core/differentialabundance/blob/dev/modules%2Fnf-core%2Fcustom%2Ftabulartogseacls%2Fmain.nf#L30

But my suggested awk-only replacement of that line and the next might still be more robust. Should I bother with a pull-request or nah?

[jenmuell]

Hmm, I'm not familiar with the run time of awk. Could we run in some problems with the for-loop in your on-line awk option? Especially, with large datasets.

[BEFH]

It just loops over the fields on the first line of the file, so it's unlikely to be an issue. I suppose I could make a test file with thousands of columns to check, but it seems unnecessary.

A tool called Miller is actually much better for this, but it's best to not add any dependencies.

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 9:27 AM Jennifer Müller @.***> wrote:

Hmm, I'm not familiar with the run time of awk. Could we run in some problems with the for-loop in your on-line awk option? Especially, with large datasets.

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[WackerO]

@BEFH I will say I'm not an AWK expert, but if your code solution is more robust, do feel free to make a PR! @jenmuell thanks for looking into this!