RCTD "SpatialRNA: counts does not contain integers"

[ahwanpandey]

Hello,

Thanks for sharing this tool!

I just cleaned my Spatial data using SpotClean. Now I am trying to feed in this cleaned data into RCTD but am getting this error:

> query <- SpatialRNA(coords, counts, nUMI)
Error in check_counts(counts, "SpatialRNA", require_int = require_int) : 
  SpatialRNA: counts does not contain integers

The developer of RCTD states that the data does not need to be corrected as RCTD should handle it.
dmcable/spacexr#147
dmcable/spacexr#161

I am thinking of rounding the SpotClean values to integers.

Or maybe as the RCTD developer suggest,s I don't need to run SpotClean before using RCTD.

Do you have any suggestions or experience with this?

Thanks!
Ahwan

[ahwanpandey]

I just did a quick check for one sample by converting the post Spotclean values to integers [round(spot_clean_vals, 0)] and then running RCTD. The results were very similar so it seems I don't need to actually run SpotClean for this purpose? But then again, this was on a sample where the contamination rate was quite low.

But in any case, would be great to hear your thoughts!