BiocCheck
Bioc currentBioconductor-specific package checks
Release Lineage
Entered 2.14 · Apr 14, 2014
Current · Requires R 4.6
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.
Call graph
Open call graph →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
API
Exported functions
4
Internal functions
154
Recent export changes
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
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Examples that run
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 100%
- Return-value docs
- 100%
- References docs
- 33%
Topics
Depended on by (18)
Bioconductor (16)
CRAN (2)
People
- Marcel Ramos author maintainer
- Leonardo Collado-Torres contributor
- Federico Marini contributor
- Bioconductor Package Maintainer author
- Kevin Rue contributor
- Lori Shepherd author
- Daniel von Twisk contributor
Cite
Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:
citation("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.
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.