BiocBaseUtils
Bioc currentUtility and internal functions for Bioconductor packages
Release Lineage
Entered 3.16 · Nov 2, 2022
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
The package coalesces typical helper functions that are scattered throughout the Bioconductor ecosystem. It aims to reduce code redundancy by formalizing functions often used by Bioconductor developers. These functions include operations such as replacing slots in an object, selecting observations for show methods, labeling function life cycles, and more.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
15 12 exported
Complexity
3.1 avg / 7 max
Call network
15 nodes / 9 edges
Test coverage is not measured for Bioconductor packages; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.
Call graph
Open call graph →Lowest coverage
Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.
Code
Structure
Lines of code
862
Files
26
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
12
Internal functions
3
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.01
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
100%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
0%
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
0%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
4.6.0
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
Artistic-2.0
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
8
First release
2022-11-01
Latest release
2026-05-26
Avg cadence
182 days
Cold removal rate
–
Dep drift
0
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 7includes a package overview page
- Examples that run
- 100%6 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 100%
- Return-value docs
- 100%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
Repository practices
Checks run against github.com/bioconductor/biocbaseutils on 2026-10-18.
No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.
Topics
Depended on by (32)
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Bioconductor (32)
Suggested by (1)
People
- Marcel Ramos author maintainer
- Martin Morgan contributor
- Hervé Pagès contributor
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