Error in while ((it <- it + 1) < limit && abs(del) > eps) { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

[morganee261]

Hello,
I am trying to run SCTransform on a subset of my seurat object and here is the error I get :
seuratobj <- SCTransform(seuratobj, vars.to.regress = "percent.mt", verbose = TRUE)

Calculating cell attributes for input UMI matrix
Variance stabilizing transformation of count matrix of size 22846 by 73390
Model formula is y ~ log_umi
Get Negative Binomial regression parameters per gene
Using 2000 genes, 73390 cells
| | 0%Error in while ((it <- it + 1) < limit && abs(del) > eps) { :
missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)

could you please let me know what I am doing wrong ?
thanks for your help and time

morgane

[ChristophH]

What is the output of traceback() right after the error is triggered?
Please provide a minimal working example that produces the error, so I can have a look at it.

[TJCooperIL]

I'm also experiencing this error (on a Seurat object).
Subsetted Seurat object which triggers the error: https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZS8XFXZuAJLR5wdLBSW3Ok7JEnYQJ2s1Ck7
Command: sample <- SCTransform(sample, verbose=TRUE)
Error message:

Calculating cell attributes from input UMI matrix: log_umi
Variance stabilizing transformation of count matrix of size 19582 by 500
Model formula is y ~ log_umi
Get Negative Binomial regression parameters per gene
Using 2000 genes, 500 cells
  |                                                                                                                                                                           |   0%Error in while ((it <- it + 1) < limit && abs(del) > eps) { : 
  missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)

Note: I've not encountered this bug before attempting to use it with denoised data (where the expression matrix no longer contains integer values).

sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

Matrix products: default
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LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.9.0

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[ChristophH]

The problem seems to be that some lowly detected genes cause errors during the model fitting step. sctransform::vst() assumes integer values and removes genes that are not detected in at least 5 cells (default value of min_cells parameter). Any count larger than 0 is a detection event.
If I apply a more stringent filtering that also removes genes that do not add up to at least 5, vst() works.

> library('Matrix')
> library('Seurat')
> library('sctransform')
> 
> s <- readRDS('~/Downloads/SCTransform_Error.rds')
> 
> cm <- s$RNA@counts
> dim(cm)
[1] 19582   500
> cm <- cm[rowSums(cm>0) >= 5 & rowSums(cm) >= 5, ]
> dim(cm)
[1] 10618   500
> vst_out <- vst(umi=cm)
Calculating cell attributes from input UMI matrix: log_umi
Variance stabilizing transformation of count matrix of size 10618 by 500
Model formula is y ~ log_umi
Get Negative Binomial regression parameters per gene
Using 2000 genes, 500 cells
  |==============================================================================| 100%
There are 7 estimated thetas smaller than 1e-07 - will be set to 1e-07
Found 141 outliers - those will be ignored in fitting/regularization step

Second step: Get residuals using fitted parameters for 10618 genes
  |==============================================================================| 100%
Calculating gene attributes
Wall clock passed: Time difference of 8.079988 secs
There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)

plot_model_pars(vst_out)

But why would you re-normalize de-noised data? I doubt that is appropriate.

If you want to smooth the data, you can do so after fitting the regularized models as shown in this vignette

[ktrns]

Hi.

I am getting this error, which seems related:

Calculating cell attributes from input UMI matrix: log_umi
Variance stabilizing transformation of count matrix of size 7033 by 150
Model formula is y ~ log_umi
Get Negative Binomial regression parameters per gene
Using 2000 genes, 150 cells
  |                                                                                                                                                     |   0%Error in while ((it <- it + 1) < limit && abs(del) > eps) { : 
  missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

I have successfully been running the code for this very dataset before, and it worked, and comparing the sctransform packages, I went from 0.20 to 0.31. Any idea?

This is a SmartSeq-2 dataset, and I know that sctransform is rather for umi-based data. Still wondering, as it seemed to technically run before.

Best and many thanks in advance
Katrin

[ChristophH]

Hi Katrin, this is likely related to a bug that is triggered by some SmartSeq2 data. Could you try the develop branch? There should be a fix for the problem.

remotes::install_github("ChristophH/sctransform@develop")

[ktrns]

Am I doing something wrong?

> remotes::install_github("ChristophH/sctransform@vdevelop")
Downloading GitHub repo ChristophH/sctransform@vdevelop
Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet,  : 
  cannot open URL 'https://api.github.com/repos/ChristophH/sctransform/tarball/vdevelop'

Thanks for your quick response
Katrin

[ChristophH]

Sorry, my initial reply had a typo. The command is remotes::install_github("ChristophH/sctransform@develop")

[morganee261]

I reinstalled the package and it is working fine now.
thanks