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1 Motivation

The chihaya package saves DelayedArray objects for efficient, portable and stable reproduction of delayed operations in a new R session or other programming frameworks.

Check out the specification for more details.

2 Quick start

Make a DelayedArray object with some operations:

library(DelayedArray)
x <- DelayedArray(matrix(runif(1000), ncol=10))
x <- x[11:15,] / runif(5) 
x <- log2(x + 1)
x
## <5 x 10> DelayedMatrix object of type "double":
##           [,1]      [,2]      [,3] ...      [,9]     [,10]
## [1,] 3.2307029 1.5069998 1.0892496   . 2.9317923 3.0445530
## [2,] 0.3318089 0.3964993 1.0129336   . 0.4897470 0.6263867
## [3,] 1.7775790 3.1322702 2.7085484   . 2.9777790 2.4281258
## [4,] 0.4956991 0.9881600 0.4206113   . 0.2392414 0.8861764
## [5,] 0.7538181 0.5090957 1.3103558   . 1.3456434 1.4159059
showtree(x)
## 5x10 double: DelayedMatrix object
## └─ 5x10 double: Stack of 2 unary iso op(s)
##    └─ 5x10 double: Unary iso op with args
##       └─ 5x10 double: Subset
##          └─ 100x10 double: [seed] matrix object

Save it into a HDF5 file with saveDelayed():

library(chihaya)
tmp <- tempfile(fileext=".h5")
saveDelayed(x, tmp)
rhdf5::h5ls(tmp)
##                            group    name       otype  dclass      dim
## 0                              / delayed   H5I_GROUP                 
## 1                       /delayed    base H5I_DATASET   FLOAT    ( 0 )
## 2                       /delayed  method H5I_DATASET  STRING    ( 0 )
## 3                       /delayed    seed   H5I_GROUP                 
## 4                  /delayed/seed  method H5I_DATASET  STRING    ( 0 )
## 5                  /delayed/seed    seed   H5I_GROUP                 
## 6             /delayed/seed/seed   along H5I_DATASET INTEGER    ( 0 )
## 7             /delayed/seed/seed  method H5I_DATASET  STRING    ( 0 )
## 8             /delayed/seed/seed    seed   H5I_GROUP                 
## 9        /delayed/seed/seed/seed   index   H5I_GROUP                 
## 10 /delayed/seed/seed/seed/index       0 H5I_DATASET INTEGER        5
## 11       /delayed/seed/seed/seed    seed   H5I_GROUP                 
## 12  /delayed/seed/seed/seed/seed    data H5I_DATASET   FLOAT 100 x 10
## 13  /delayed/seed/seed/seed/seed  native H5I_DATASET INTEGER    ( 0 )
## 14            /delayed/seed/seed    side H5I_DATASET  STRING    ( 0 )
## 15            /delayed/seed/seed   value H5I_DATASET   FLOAT        5
## 16                 /delayed/seed    side H5I_DATASET  STRING    ( 0 )
## 17                 /delayed/seed   value H5I_DATASET   FLOAT    ( 0 )

And then load it back in later:

y <- loadDelayed(tmp)
y
## <5 x 10> DelayedMatrix object of type "double":
##           [,1]      [,2]      [,3] ...      [,9]     [,10]
## [1,] 3.2307029 1.5069998 1.0892496   . 2.9317923 3.0445530
## [2,] 0.3318089 0.3964993 1.0129336   . 0.4897470 0.6263867
## [3,] 1.7775790 3.1322702 2.7085484   . 2.9777790 2.4281258
## [4,] 0.4956991 0.9881600 0.4206113   . 0.2392414 0.8861764
## [5,] 0.7538181 0.5090957 1.3103558   . 1.3456434 1.4159059

Of course, this is not a particularly interesting case as we end up saving the original array inside our HDF5 file anyway. The real fun begins when you have some more interesting seeds.

3 More interesting seeds

We can use the delayed nature of the operations to avoid breaking sparsity. For example:

library(Matrix)
x <- rsparsematrix(1000, 1000, density=0.01)
x <- DelayedArray(x) + runif(1000)

tmp <- tempfile(fileext=".h5")
saveDelayed(x, tmp)
rhdf5::h5ls(tmp)
##            group     name       otype  dclass   dim
## 0              /  delayed   H5I_GROUP              
## 1       /delayed    along H5I_DATASET INTEGER ( 0 )
## 2       /delayed   method H5I_DATASET  STRING ( 0 )
## 3       /delayed     seed   H5I_GROUP              
## 4  /delayed/seed     data H5I_DATASET   FLOAT 10000
## 5  /delayed/seed dimnames   H5I_GROUP              
## 6  /delayed/seed  indices H5I_DATASET INTEGER 10000
## 7  /delayed/seed   indptr H5I_DATASET INTEGER  1001
## 8  /delayed/seed    shape H5I_DATASET INTEGER     2
## 9       /delayed     side H5I_DATASET  STRING ( 0 )
## 10      /delayed    value H5I_DATASET   FLOAT  1000
file.info(tmp)[["size"]]
## [1] 101676
# Compared to a dense array.
tmp2 <- tempfile(fileext=".h5")
out <- HDF5Array::writeHDF5Array(x, tmp2, "data")
file.info(tmp2)[["size"]]
## [1] 279722
# Loading it back in.
y <- loadDelayed(tmp)
showtree(y)
## 1000x1000 double: DelayedMatrix object
## └─ 1000x1000 double: Unary iso op with args
##    └─ 1000x1000 double, sparse: [seed] dgCMatrix object

We can also store references to external files, thus avoiding data duplication:

library(HDF5Array)
test <- HDF5Array(tmp2, "data")
stuff <- log2(test + 1)
stuff
## <1000 x 1000> DelayedMatrix object of type "double":
##               [,1]       [,2]       [,3] ...     [,999]    [,1000]
##    [1,] 0.10119835 0.10119835 0.10119835   . 0.10119835 0.10119835
##    [2,] 0.09285575 1.04717480 0.09285575   . 0.09285575 0.09285575
##    [3,] 0.33333475 0.33333475 0.33333475   . 0.33333475 0.33333475
##    [4,] 0.03761130 0.03761130 0.03761130   . 0.03761130 0.03761130
##    [5,] 0.07943211 0.07943211 0.07943211   . 0.07943211 0.07943211
##     ...          .          .          .   .          .          .
##  [996,]  0.4840033  0.4840033  0.4840033   .  0.4840033  0.4840033
##  [997,]  0.7988256  0.7988256  0.7988256   .  0.7988256  0.7988256
##  [998,]  0.9872841  0.9872841  0.9872841   .  0.9872841  0.9872841
##  [999,]  0.9816573  0.9816573  0.9816573   .  0.9816573  0.9816573
## [1000,]  0.1731113  0.1731113  0.1731113   .  0.1731113  0.1731113
tmp <- tempfile(fileext=".h5")
saveDelayed(stuff, tmp)
rhdf5::h5ls(tmp)
##                 group       name       otype  dclass   dim
## 0                   /    delayed   H5I_GROUP              
## 1            /delayed       base H5I_DATASET   FLOAT ( 0 )
## 2            /delayed     method H5I_DATASET  STRING ( 0 )
## 3            /delayed       seed   H5I_GROUP              
## 4       /delayed/seed     method H5I_DATASET  STRING ( 0 )
## 5       /delayed/seed       seed   H5I_GROUP              
## 6  /delayed/seed/seed dimensions H5I_DATASET INTEGER     2
## 7  /delayed/seed/seed       file H5I_DATASET  STRING ( 0 )
## 8  /delayed/seed/seed       name H5I_DATASET  STRING ( 0 )
## 9  /delayed/seed/seed     sparse H5I_DATASET INTEGER ( 0 )
## 10 /delayed/seed/seed       type H5I_DATASET  STRING ( 0 )
## 11      /delayed/seed       side H5I_DATASET  STRING ( 0 )
## 12      /delayed/seed      value H5I_DATASET   FLOAT ( 0 )
file.info(tmp)[["size"]] # size of the delayed operations + pointer to the actual file
## [1] 49642
y <- loadDelayed(tmp)
y
## <1000 x 1000> DelayedMatrix object of type "double":
##               [,1]       [,2]       [,3] ...     [,999]    [,1000]
##    [1,] 0.10119835 0.10119835 0.10119835   . 0.10119835 0.10119835
##    [2,] 0.09285575 1.04717480 0.09285575   . 0.09285575 0.09285575
##    [3,] 0.33333475 0.33333475 0.33333475   . 0.33333475 0.33333475
##    [4,] 0.03761130 0.03761130 0.03761130   . 0.03761130 0.03761130
##    [5,] 0.07943211 0.07943211 0.07943211   . 0.07943211 0.07943211
##     ...          .          .          .   .          .          .
##  [996,]  0.4840033  0.4840033  0.4840033   .  0.4840033  0.4840033
##  [997,]  0.7988256  0.7988256  0.7988256   .  0.7988256  0.7988256
##  [998,]  0.9872841  0.9872841  0.9872841   .  0.9872841  0.9872841
##  [999,]  0.9816573  0.9816573  0.9816573   .  0.9816573  0.9816573
## [1000,]  0.1731113  0.1731113  0.1731113   .  0.1731113  0.1731113

Session information

sessionInfo()
## R version 4.4.0 beta (2024-04-15 r86425)
## Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
## Running under: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
## 
## Matrix products: default
## BLAS:   /home/biocbuild/bbs-3.19-bioc/R/lib/libRblas.so 
## LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.10.0
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## tzcode source: system (glibc)
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## [1] stats4    stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
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##  [1] HDF5Array_1.32.0      rhdf5_2.48.0          chihaya_1.4.0        
##  [4] DelayedArray_0.30.0   SparseArray_1.4.0     S4Arrays_1.4.0       
##  [7] abind_1.4-5           IRanges_2.38.0        S4Vectors_0.42.0     
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