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ComplexHeatmap

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Make Complex Heatmaps

v2.28.0 · Package record · software · MIT + file LICENSE

Release Lineage

Entered 3.1 · Apr 17, 2015

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 23 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Complex heatmaps are efficient to visualize associations between different sources of data sets and reveal potential patterns. Here the ComplexHeatmap package provides a highly flexible way to arrange multiple heatmaps and supports various annotation graphics.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

330 178 exported

Complexity

9.2 avg / 220 max

Call network

330 nodes / 615 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

41,729

Files

334

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 28,184 (67.5%)Tests 3,529 (8.5%)Docs 9,641 (23.1%)Vignettes 375 (0.9%)

API

Exported functions

178

Internal functions

146

Recent export changes

v3.9+103 [.AnnotationFunction, [.Heatmap, [.HeatmapAnnotation +100 more  −12 grid.dendrogram2, adjust_dend_by_leaf_width, column_anno_barplot 9 more
v3.6+2 grid.dendrogram2, adjust_dend_by_leaf_width

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.13

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

99.4%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

8.3%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

11.1%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.0.0

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

MIT + file LICENSE

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

23

First release

2015-04-16

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

20

LOC over versions

v3.1: 8,889 LOCv3.2: 14,105 LOCv3.3: 15,566 LOCv3.4: 16,707 LOCv3.5: 16,940 LOCv3.6: 17,978 LOCv3.7: 17,993 LOCv3.8: 18,000 LOCv3.9: 29,451 LOCv3.10: 29,781 LOCv3.11: 33,828 LOCv3.12: 38,242 LOCv3.13: 39,465 LOCv3.14: 40,340 LOCv3.15: 41,528 LOCv3.16: 41,573 LOCv3.17: 41,667 LOCv3.18: 41,667 LOCv3.19: 41,667 LOCv3.20: 41,668 LOCv3.21: 41,729 LOCv3.22: 41,729 LOCv3.23: 41,729 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
README· In the Bioconductor git repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown
Help pages
253includes a package overview page
Examples that run
99%251 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples
100%
Documented parameters
92%
Return-value docs
46%
Help pages citing references
0%

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jokergoo/complexheatmap on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)
GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)
Code of conductIssue templates
Docs source (2)
pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-02

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

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 18
NameClassSizeAlso in
annodata.frame20 × 5No other package
anno_collist3 elementsNo other package
anno_genevector1,000 elementsNo other package
anno_statesdata.frame1,000 × 3No other package
cor_pvaluevector1,000 elementsNo other package
directionvector1,000 elementsNo other package
dmr_summarylist10 elementsNo other package
gene_expressiondata.frame155 × 272 packages
gene_typevector1,000 elementsNo other package
grdata.frame2,415 × 29No other package
mat_exprmatrix1,000 × 20No other package
mat_methmatrix1,000 × 20No other package
measlesmatrix59 × 723 packages
methlist8 elementsNo other package
rand_matmatrix18 × 24No other package
sample_orderdata.frame171 × 1No other package
tcga_lung_adenocarcinoma_provisional_ras_raf_mek_jnk_signallingmatrix26 × 172No other package
tss_distvector1,000 elementsNo other package

All of ComplexHeatmap's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Zuguang Gu

Available on

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Depended on by (158)

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("ComplexHeatmap")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw313, 10.1002/imt2.43.

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 ComplexHeatmap version 2.28.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-17, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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