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BSgenomeForge

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Forge your own BSgenome data package

v1.12.0 · Package record · software · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 3.17 · Apr 26, 2023

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 7 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

A set of tools to forge BSgenome data packages. Supersedes the old seed-based tools from the BSgenome software package. This package allows the user to create a BSgenome data package in one function call, simplifying the old seed-based process.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

69 10 exported

Complexity

4.9 avg / 17 max

Call network

69 nodes / 85 edges

Test coverage is not measured for Bioconductor packages; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

Code

Structure

Lines of code

4,343

Files

195

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 2,131 (49.1%)Tests 299 (6.9%)Docs 1,009 (23.2%)Vignettes 904 (20.8%)

API

Exported functions

12

Internal functions

56

Recent export changes

v3.19+7 forgeBSgenomeDataPkgFromTwobitFile, forgeSeqlengthsRdsFile, forgeSeqlengthsRdaFile +4 more

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.14

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

12.5%

Unsafe pattern score

12

Dep constraint coverage

42.9%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.3.0

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

Artistic-2.0

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

7

First release

2023-06-20

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

170 days

Cold removal rate

–

Dep drift

3

LOC over versions

v3.17: 1,769 LOCv3.18: 1,791 LOCv3.19: 4,325 LOCv3.20: 4,325 LOCv3.21: 4,349 LOCv3.22: 4,343 LOCv3.23: 4,343 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.

Documentation

In the Bioconductor 3.23 release
READMEYes · 263 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.12.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION
Help pages
8includes a package overview page
Examples that run
100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
100%
Documented parameters
79%
Return-value docs
86%
Help pages citing references
0%
Changes in 1.12.0 (Bioconductor 3.23)

BUG FIXES

  • Fix issue in internal helper drop_rows_with_NA_accns()
  • Remove outdated links from inst/pkgtemplates/BSgenome_datapkg/man/package.Rd and inst/pkgtemplates/MaskedBSgenome_datapkg/man/package.Rd

From NEWS in the release

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/bioconductor/bsgenomeforge on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 2
NameClassSizeAlso in
NOTES–––
README–––

All of BSgenomeForge's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Hervé Pagès

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

Suggested by (2)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("BSgenomeForge")
Pagès, H., Elendu, E. C., Kakopo, A. K., & Maduka, P. C. (2026). BSgenomeForge: Forge your own BSgenome data package (Version 1.12.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/BSgenomeForge

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BSgenomeForge version 1.12.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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