BiocGenerics
Bioc currentS4 generic functions used in Bioconductor
Release Lineage
Entered 2.10 · Apr 2, 2012
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
The package defines many S4 generic functions used in Bioconductor.
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
38 6 exported
Complexity
3.3 avg / 13 max
Call network
38 nodes / 12 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
8,029
Files
161
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
133
Internal functions
30
Recent export changes
Testing & CI
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.00
testthat edition
–
CI present
No
CI type
[]
PR gated
No
Docs
Roxygen coverage
99.2%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
100%
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
0%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
4.0.0
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
Artistic-2.0
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
29
First release
2012-03-30
Latest release
2026-05-13
Avg cadence
182 days
Cold removal rate
100%
Dep drift
4
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
- 61%
- Return-value docs
- 91%
- References docs
- 0%
Topics
Depended on by (997)
Bioconductor (969)
People
- Hervé Pagès author maintainer
- The Bioconductor Dev Team author
- Laurent Gatto contributor
- Nathaniel Hayden contributor
- James Hester contributor
- Wolfgang Huber contributor
- Michael Lawrence contributor
- Martin Morgan contributor
- Valerie Obenchain contributor
Cite
Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:
citation("BiocGenerics")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
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