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MsBackendMgf

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Mass Spectrometry Data Backend for Mascot Generic Format (mgf) Files

v1.20.1 · Package record · software · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 3.13 · May 20, 2021

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 11 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Mass spectrometry (MS) data backend supporting import and export of MS/MS spectra data from Mascot Generic Format (mgf) files. Objects defined in this package are supposed to be used with the Spectra Bioconductor package. This package thus adds mgf file support to the Spectra package.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

9 4 exported

Complexity

5.1 avg / 12 max

Call network

9 nodes / 7 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

1,782

Files

18

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 784 (44%)Tests 426 (23.9%)Docs 316 (17.7%)Vignettes 256 (14.4%)

API

Exported functions

4

Internal functions

5

Recent export changes

v3.21+1 MsBackendAnnotatedMgf
v3.19+1 readMgfSplit

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.54

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

0%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

22.2%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.0

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

Artistic-2.0

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

11

First release

2021-05-19

Latest release

2026-07-24

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

2

LOC over versions

v3.13: 935 LOCv3.14: 1,021 LOCv3.15: 1,042 LOCv3.16: 1,040 LOCv3.17: 1,069 LOCv3.18: 1,069 LOCv3.19: 1,259 LOCv3.20: 1,259 LOCv3.21: 1,746 LOCv3.22: 1,746 LOCv3.23: 1,782 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 · 92 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWS· In the Bioconductor git repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNo
Help pages
3 (1 internal)
Examples that run
100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
100%
Documented parameters
93%
Return-value docs
100%
Help pages citing references
0%

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rformassspectrometry/msbackendmgf on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)
GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (3)
pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-24 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)
Coverage reporting
Lint, format, editor (1)
EditorConfig
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Topics

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

Suggested by (4)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MsBackendMgf")
RforMassSpectrometry Package Maintainer, Broeckling, C., Gatto, L., Gibb, S., Rainer, J., Rutz, A., & Witting, M. (2026). MsBackendMgf: Mass Spectrometry Data Backend for Mascot Generic Format (mgf) Files (Version 1.20.1) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/MsBackendMgf

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 MsBackendMgf version 1.20.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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