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MAST

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Model-based Analysis of Single Cell Transcriptomics

v1.38.0 · Package record · software · GPL(>= 2)

Release Lineage

Entered 3.4 · Oct 18, 2016

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 20 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Methods and models for handling zero-inflated single cell assay data.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

152 44 exported

Complexity

4.6 avg / 67 max

Call network

152 nodes / 104 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

12,385

Files

289

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 6,503 (52.5%)Tests 1,405 (11.3%)Docs 2,773 (22.4%)Vignettes 1,704 (13.8%)

API

Exported functions

50

Internal functions

108

Recent export changes

v3.8+2 SceToSingleCellAssay, gsea_control
v3.6+1 mast_filter

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.22

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

0%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

10.5%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

3.5

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

GPL(>= 2)

License flags

not SPDX, not OSI

History

Versions

20

First release

2016-11-22

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

5

LOC over versions

v3.4: 10,855 LOCv3.5: 10,834 LOCv3.6: 11,019 LOCv3.7: 11,132 LOCv3.8: 11,368 LOCv3.9: 13,139 LOCv3.10: 13,286 LOCv3.11: 12,186 LOCv3.12: 12,186 LOCv3.13: 12,267 LOCv3.14: 12,267 LOCv3.15: 12,333 LOCv3.16: 12,337 LOCv3.17: 12,385 LOCv3.18: 12,386 LOCv3.19: 12,386 LOCv3.20: 12,386 LOCv3.21: 12,386 LOCv3.22: 12,385 LOCv3.23: 12,385 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 · 316 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structuredCitation fileNo
Help pages
75includes a package overview page
Examples that run
100%42 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
91%
Documented parameters
99%
Return-value docs
97%
Help pages citing references
1%

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rglab/mast on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)
Travis CI (config file)
Governance and community (1)
Issue templates
Docs source (2)
pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-17

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

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 4
NameClassSizeAlso in
maitslist3 elementsNo other package
predicted_sigdata.table100 × 8No other package
vbetadata.frame34,200 × 11No other package
vbetaFA–––

All of MAST's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Andrew McDavid

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

Depended on by (5)

CRAN (1)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MAST")
McDavid, A., Finak, G., & Yajima, M. (2026). MAST: Model-based Analysis of Single Cell Transcriptomics (Version 1.38.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/MAST

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 MAST version 1.38.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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