To Have Auto functions based on titles , titles cannot contain spaces or dashes perhaps others

[lshep]

> MsDataHub::TMT_Erwinia_1uLSike_Top10HCD_isol2_45stepped_60min_01-20141210.mzid()
Error: unexpected symbol in "MsDataHub::TMT_Erwinia_1uLSike_Top10HCD_isol2_45stepped_60min_01-20141210.mzid"

> MsDataHub::20171016_POOL_POS_1_105-134.mzML()
Error: unexpected numeric constant in "MsDataHub::20171016"

Figure out constraints of converting titles to auto hub functions and provide warnings when they are not to standard

[lgatto]

One option I can see is to use make.names() (that should, I think, always return valid symbol names) to fix or at least identify those titles that would be modified and this lead to invalid functions.

[lshep]

@lgatto getting back to this now. Were you suggesting to do this automatically in the validation/titles or as part of the of createHubAccessor function in ExperimentHub code base?

[lgatto]

I have added such a check in my repo, but I think it would be useful to test this explicitly in ExperimentHub code base. I appreciate that my titles weren't conventional, but this is bound to happen again if developers want to share files using the original file names (as was my case).

[lshep]

My concern is actually using the titles as accessors isn't used that much and could throw off people who expect the titles to be exact or don't wish to do this. I'll look at implementing something in the createHubAccessor iteslf ; as even a note in the metadata validation would probably be very noisy for most

[lgatto]

Ah, I see. I find this feature quite useful that I thought it would be widely used.

[lshep]

maybe we just don't advertise it enough ?!