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fix: separate a significance test that did not run from a null result - #42
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Closes #31. `_alpha_significance` degraded to `(nothing, empty DataFrame)`, and five distinct conditions collapsed onto that one value: the R runtime being held by a pipeline, R/vegan being absent, the groups sharing no sample IDs, R's own `tryCatch` yielding `NA_real_`, and a genuine result in which no pair reached significance. Only the last is a finding. The other four were rendered the way a null result is rendered, which publishes a negative result that was never computed. Two refinements to the issue, both measured rather than assumed: - The omnibus annotation was NOT a false negative. `_significance_stars(nothing)` already returned "n/a". The silent negative was one function away, in `_add_pairwise_annotations!`, which returned early on an empty DataFrame and so drew no brackets - exactly how "no pair reached significance" looks. - The issue describes two conditions; there are five. `:test_failed` (R returning NA for the statistic itself) was not previously distinguished at all. `AlphaSignificance` makes `status` the primary field and the p-value subordinate to it: `:computed` is the only status under which the numbers may be read as evidence. A chart whose pairwise tests did not run now carries an explicit notice instead of silently drawing nothing, and the omnibus caption says "not run" with the reason rather than printing "n/a" beside a test name. On criterion 5, whether to retry rather than degrade: the bounded wait stays. `r_runtime.jl` already argues it - a pipeline can hold R for hours and an interactive handler must not hang behind it. The defect was never the degradation, it was that the degradation was silent. `:r_busy` is transient and its wording invites a retry; `:r_unavailable` is a deployment fault and reads differently. The test that stood here asserted `isnothing(p) && nrow(pairs) == 0` - the ambiguous shape itself - so it passed the defect and would have passed a wrong fix. It now asserts that a not-computed result cannot be mistaken for a computed one. Both mutants were killed before this was believed: reverting the `:r_busy` branch to the old shape reds 4 assertions, and restoring the silent early return reds the surface test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X3hgXxWm6umMgZkjYyHnnm
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WalkthroughThe alpha-significance path now returns a status-bearing ChangesAlpha significance status handling
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participant Analysis as _alpha_significance
participant RRuntime as R runtime
participant Caption as _significance_caption
participant Panel as _add_pairwise_annotations!
Analysis->>RRuntime: Request alpha-significance test
RRuntime-->>Analysis: Return computed result or status
Analysis->>Caption: Provide AlphaSignificance
Caption-->>Panel: Render significance caption
Analysis->>Panel: Provide AlphaSignificance
Panel-->>Panel: Render brackets or not-run notice
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In `@src/analysis/analysis.jl`:
- Line 729: Track pairwise execution status and failure reasons in both paired
and unpaired analysis paths, distinguishing “not requested,” successful
completion with no significant pairs, and execution failure. Update
_add_pairwise_annotations! to report failures even when paired results contain
only NA_real_ p-values or unpaired results are empty, while preserving normal
annotation behavior for valid results. Ensure the omnibus result remains
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Track requested pairwise failures separately.
When pairwise=true and the omnibus p-value is valid, both R paths can still fail during pairwise testing. The paired path stores NA_real_ p-values, while the unpaired path stores an empty table when pairwise.wilcox.test fails or returns only unusable values. Line 729 then creates a :computed result. _add_pairwise_annotations! skips missing p-values and returns for an empty table, so the chart shows no pairwise findings instead of a not-run notice.
Add pairwise status and reason data, and report pairwise execution failures through _add_pairwise_annotations!. Apply this to both paired and unpaired paths. Do not mark the result as failed when pairwise testing was not requested or completed successfully with no significant pairs.
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In `@src/analysis/analysis.jl` at line 729, Track pairwise execution status and
failure reasons in both paired and unpaired analysis paths, distinguishing “not
requested,” successful completion with no significant pairs, and execution
failure. Update _add_pairwise_annotations! to report failures even when paired
results contain only NA_real_ p-values or unpaired results are empty, while
preserving normal annotation behavior for valid results. Ensure the omnibus
result remains computed when pairwise testing was not requested or completed
successfully.
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Closes #31.
The defect
_alpha_significancereturned(nothing, empty DataFrame)when it could not run,and five distinct conditions collapsed onto that one value:
tryCatchyieldedNA_real_Rendering any of the first four the way the fifth is rendered publishes a negative
result that was never computed.
Two refinements to the issue, both measured rather than assumed
An issue body is a dated record, so each acceptance criterion was re-checked against
disk before being implemented.
_significance_stars(nothing)already returned"n/a", not"ns". The realsilent negative was one function away in
_add_pairwise_annotations!, whichreturned early on an empty DataFrame and therefore drew no brackets — which is
exactly how "no pair reached significance" looks on the chart. Drawing nothing is
how a null result renders, so a test that never ran must not borrow that appearance.
:test_failed— Rreturning
NAfor the statistic itself — was not distinguished anywhere.The change
AlphaSignificancereplaces the tuple:statusis primary and the p-value issubordinate to it.
:computedis the only status under which the numbers may be readas evidence.
was_computed(r)is the predicate;reasoncarries the wording shown towhoever is looking at the chart.
" instead of printing
n/abeside a test name.
_add_pairwise_annotations!draws an explicit amber notice — "Pairwise tests notrun — " — rather than returning silently.
panel_pairwisewasDict{Int, DataFrame}; it now holdsAlphaSignificance. Thatwould have thrown at runtime and was caught by grepping every reference after the
consumer changed, not by the suite.
Criterion 5, decided explicitly
The issue leaves open whether a busy R runtime should block or degrade. Keep the
bounded wait and degrade — but honestly.
src/core/r_runtime.jlalready argues thata pipeline can hold R for hours and an interactive handler must not hang behind it.
The boxplot is still worth drawing; what was wrong was drawing it as though the test
had run.
:r_busy's wording invites a retry;:r_unavailable's does not, because itis a deployment fault.
Evidence
R runtime37/37 pass (was 17).defect reds the right assertions:
:r_busybranch to the old(nothing, empty)shape → 4 failuresat the four new discriminating assertions;
_add_pairwise_annotations!→ 1 failure +1 error at the surface test.
diff -q), suite green again.isnothing(p) && nrow(pairs) == 0— it enshrined theambiguity, which is why the defect survived review. It now asserts that a
not-computed result cannot compare equal to a computed one, with a genuine
_computed(0.87, empty)positive control so the new notice is a signal ratherthan noise.
prose class came back empty — no doc described the degradation, so none is stale.
Not in this PR
The full local suite reports one unrelated error in
test_provenance.jl→live probes of what is actually installed:provenance: could not prove 'r': package 'dada2' is not installed in the R library in use. It is pre-existing and cannot be caused by this change — the diff toucheszero lines of the provenance path. Its cause is a guard/consumer mismatch: line 440
guards with
probe_r(; packages = String[])(no packages, always succeeds) and line448 then calls
probe_r(; timeout = 120)with the default list["dada2", "Biostrings", "ShortRead", "vegan"]. The@info "skipping"escape hatchcan therefore never fire for the case it exists for. Filed separately.
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