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BiocCheck

Bioc current

Bioconductor-specific package checks

v1.48.1 · software · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 2.14 · Apr 14, 2014

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 25 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

BiocCheck guides maintainers through Bioconductor best practicies. It runs Bioconductor-specific package checks by searching through package code, examples, and vignettes. Maintainers are required to address all errors, warnings, and most notes produced.

Test coverage

Line coverage

Expression

Tests / Examples

Functions

167 2 exported

Complexity

3.4 avg / 43 max

Call network

167 nodes / 303 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

6,019

Files

71

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 4,642 (77.1%)Tests 2 (0%)Docs 520 (8.6%)Vignettes 855 (14.2%)

API

Exported functions

4

Internal functions

154

Recent export changes

v3.8+2 BiocCheckGitClone, usage2

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.00

testthat edition

CI present

Yes

CI type

["github-actions"]

PR gated

Yes

Docs

Roxygen coverage

75%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

37.5%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.4.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

Artistic-2.0

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

25

First release

2014-05-13

Latest release

2026-06-30

Avg cadence

184 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

17

LOC over versions

v2.14: 1,961 LOCv3.0: 2,092 LOCv3.1: 2,231 LOCv3.2: 2,375 LOCv3.3: 2,471 LOCv3.4: 2,499 LOCv3.5: 2,505 LOCv3.6: 2,559 LOCv3.7: 2,759 LOCv3.8: 3,384 LOCv3.9: 3,727 LOCv3.10: 3,736 LOCv3.11: 3,760 LOCv3.12: 3,934 LOCv3.13: 4,095 LOCv3.14: 4,380 LOCv3.15: 4,636 LOCv3.16: 5,123 LOCv3.17: 5,164 LOCv3.18: 5,362 LOCv3.19: 5,478 LOCv3.20: 5,585 LOCv3.21: 5,642 LOCv3.22: 5,829 LOCv3.23: 6,019 LOC

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

Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 187 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
100%
References docs
33%

Topics

Depended on by (18)

CRAN (2)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("BiocCheck")
Ramos, M., Collado-Torres, L., Marini, F., Package Maintainer, B., Rue, K., Shepherd, L., & von Twisk, D. (2026). BiocCheck: Bioconductor-specific package checks (Version 1.48.1) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/BiocCheck

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 BiocCheck version 1.48.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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