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BiocGenerics

Bioc current

S4 generic functions used in Bioconductor

v0.58.1 · software · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 2.10 · Apr 2, 2012

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 29 of 49 releases 3.23

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.

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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

R 1,999 (24.9%)Tests 2 (0%)Docs 6,028 (75.1%)

API

Exported functions

133

Internal functions

30

Recent export changes

v3.9+1 toTable  −1 lengths
v3.8+1 dims

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

v2.10: 2,948 LOCv2.11: 3,015 LOCv2.12: 3,711 LOCv2.13: 4,432 LOCv2.14: 4,625 LOCv3.0: 4,873 LOCv3.1: 5,256 LOCv3.2: 5,744 LOCv3.3: 5,864 LOCv3.4: 6,014 LOCv3.5: 6,403 LOCv3.6: 6,456 LOCv3.7: 6,841 LOCv3.8: 6,898 LOCv3.9: 6,857 LOCv3.10: 6,990 LOCv3.11: 6,992 LOCv3.12: 7,169 LOCv3.13: 7,086 LOCv3.14: 6,917 LOCv3.15: 6,912 LOCv3.16: 7,167 LOCv3.17: 7,151 LOCv3.18: 7,225 LOCv3.19: 7,225 LOCv3.20: 7,546 LOCv3.21: 7,996 LOCv3.22: 8,012 LOCv3.23: 8,029 LOC

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

Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 40 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
61%
Return-value docs
91%
References docs
0%

Topics

Depended on by (997)

CRAN (28)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("BiocGenerics")
Pagès, H., The Bioconductor Dev Team, Gatto, L., Hayden, N., Hester, J., Huber, W., Lawrence, M., Morgan, M., & Obenchain, V. (2026). BiocGenerics: S4 generic functions used in Bioconductor (Version 0.58.1) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/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

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

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BiocGenerics version 0.58.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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