BiocParallel
Bioc currentBioconductor facilities for parallel evaluation
Release Lineage
Entered 2.12 · Apr 4, 2013
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
This package provides modified versions and novel implementation of functions for parallel evaluation, tailored to use with Bioconductor objects.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
361 45 exported
Complexity
2.5 avg / 15 max
Call network
361 nodes / 287 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
14,282
Files
115
Compiled share
18.2%
Has compiled src
Yes
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
103
Internal functions
46
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.00
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
98.1%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
35.3%
Unsafe pattern score
3
Dep constraint coverage
0%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
4.1.0
System requirements
1 externalC++11
C++ standard
–
License
GPL-2 | GPL-3 | BSL-1.0
License flags
not SPDX, not OSI
History
Versions
27
First release
2013-04-03
Latest release
2026-04-28
Avg cadence
185 days
Cold removal rate
100%
Dep drift
13
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 25includes a package overview page
- Examples that run
- 86%19 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run · 1 hold no code
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 97%
- Return-value docs
- 62%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
Repository practices
1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/bioconductor/biocparallel on 2026-10-11.
GitHub Pages site
Topics
Depended on by (487)
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Bioconductor (471)
CRAN (16)
Suggested by (65)
People
- Jiefei Wang author maintainer
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Phylis Atieno
contributor
Translated 'Introduction to BiocParallel' vignette from Sweave to Rmarkdown / HTML.
- Henrik Bengtsson contributor
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Madelyn Carlson
contributor
Translated 'Random Numbers' vignette from Sweave to RMarkdown / HTML.
- Michel Lang author
- Aaron Lun contributor
- Martin Morgan author
- Valerie Obenchain author
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Sergio Oller
contributor
Improved bpmapply() efficiency.
- Ryan Thompson author
- Nitesh Turaga author
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