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BiocSingular

Bioc current

Singular Value Decomposition for Bioconductor Packages

v1.28.1 · Package record · software · GPL-3

Release Lineage

Entered 3.9 · May 3, 2019

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 15 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Implements exact and approximate methods for singular value decomposition and principal components analysis, in a framework that allows them to be easily switched within Bioconductor packages or workflows. Where possible, parallelization is achieved using the BiocParallel framework.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

47 16 exported

Complexity

2.2 avg / 8 max

Call network

47 nodes / 43 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

2,942

Files

45

Compiled share

11%

Has compiled src

Yes

Language breakdown

R 755 (25.7%)C/C++/src 323 (11%)Tests 1,039 (35.3%)Docs 595 (20.2%)Vignettes 230 (7.8%)

API

Exported functions

18

Internal functions

22

Recent export changes

v3.9+14 DeferredMatrix, DeferredMatrixSeed, ExactParam +11 more

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

1.38

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

–

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

8.3%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

–

System requirements

1 externalC++17

C++ standard

–

License

GPL-3

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

15

First release

2019-05-02

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

–

Dep drift

2

LOC over versions

v3.9: 3,832 LOCv3.10: 5,188 LOCv3.11: 5,188 LOCv3.12: 4,225 LOCv3.13: 2,662 LOCv3.14: 2,662 LOCv3.15: 2,662 LOCv3.16: 2,662 LOCv3.17: 2,662 LOCv3.18: 2,860 LOCv3.19: 2,860 LOCv3.20: 2,875 LOCv3.21: 2,875 LOCv3.22: 2,934 LOCv3.23: 2,942 LOC

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

Documentation

In the Bioconductor 3.23 release
READMEYes · 52 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · mentions 1.28.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION
Help pages
10
Examples that run
100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
78%
Documented parameters
99%
Return-value docs
89%
Help pages citing references
0%
Changes in 1.28.0 (Bioconductor 3.23)
  • Bugfix for center=TRUE and scale=TRUE when there are fewer than two rows.

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ltla/biocsingular on 2026-10-11.

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Topics

Maintainer
Aaron Lun

Available on

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Depended on by (31)

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People

  • Aaron Lun author maintainer copyright holder

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("BiocSingular")
Lun, A. (2026). BiocSingular: Singular Value Decomposition for Bioconductor Packages (Version 1.28.1) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/BiocSingular

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 BiocSingular version 1.28.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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