Tasklist - Release 1.1.0

[AndiMunteanu]

This issue contains a list of tasks and fixes that need to be addressed until the next release.

Bug list / small improvements of the existing components

• fix the colour picking component for the case of more than 99 unique colours
• decide if we will stick with qualpalr for generating the palettes of colours, or switch to something such as randomcoloR, hues or colourlovers

Features

• add the option to select the continuous colour palettes in the shiny sandbox panel using paletteer
• add an option, near the Show config button, where the user could perform subsetting on the entire dataset based on metadata

Performance improvements

• ECS and ECC speedup
  • test if calculating the contingency matrix using dgTMatrix (with the two memberships being the i, j coords, and x a repeated 1) is faster
  • assess the impact of the calculation of minimum and maximum when calculating the contingency table
  • optimise the ECC based on the new contingency table function - generate the 1 vector only once, calculate the maximum and minimum only once
• improve the calculation of the rank matrix using sparse and dense matrix
• apply these improvements in a more generalisable way of applying the wilcoxon rank sum test