IRanges
Bioc currentFoundation of integer range manipulation in Bioconductor
Release Lineage
Entered 2.3 · Oct 22, 2008
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
Provides efficient low-level and highly reusable S4 classes for storing, manipulating and aggregating over annotated ranges of integers. Implements an algebra of range operations, including efficient algorithms for finding overlaps and nearest neighbors. Defines efficient list-like classes for storing, transforming and aggregating large grouped data, i.e., collections of atomic vectors and DataFrames.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
495 55 exported
Complexity
3.8 avg / 21 max
Call network
495 nodes / 488 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
28,868
Files
162
Compiled share
22.2%
Has compiled src
Yes
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
147
Internal functions
214
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.00
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
91.8%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
100%
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
33.3%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
4.0.0
System requirements
–
C++ standard
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License
Artistic-2.0
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
36
First release
2009-04-17
Latest release
2026-04-28
Avg cadence
163 days
Cold removal rate
100%
Dep drift
5
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 43 (1 internal)
- Examples that run
- 97%37 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
- Exported functions with examples
- 97%
- Documented parameters
- 77%
- Return-value docs
- 45%
- Help pages citing references
- 5%
- No changes in this version.
From NEWS in the release
Repository practices
Checks run against github.com/bioconductor/iranges on 2026-10-11.
No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.
Topics
Depended on by (922)
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Bioconductor (891)
CRAN (31)
Suggested by (77)
People
- Hervé Pagès author maintainer
- Patrick Aboyoun author
- Michael Lawrence author
Cite
Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' entry:
citation("IRanges")The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.
It points to 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003118.
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