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QTLExperiment

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S4 classes for QTL summary statistics and metadata

v2.4.0 · software · GPL-3

Release Lineage

Entered 3.18 · Oct 25, 2023

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 6 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

QLTExperiment defines an S4 class for storing and manipulating summary statistics from QTL mapping experiments in one or more states. It is based on the 'SummarizedExperiment' class and contains functions for creating, merging, and subsetting objects. 'QTLExperiment' also stores experiment metadata and has checks in place to ensure that transformations apply correctly.

Test coverage

Line coverage

Expression

Tests / Examples

Functions

33 8 exported

Complexity

2.7 avg / 10 max

Call network

33 nodes / 14 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

3,926

Files

64

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 2,023 (51.5%)Tests 711 (18.1%)Docs 955 (24.3%)Vignettes 237 (6%)

API

Exported functions

26

Internal functions

25

Recent export changes

v3.22+1 subset
v3.21−7 int_colData<-, int_metadata<-, int_rowData<- 4 more

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.35

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

System requirements

C++ standard

License

GPL-3

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

6

First release

2023-10-24

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

189 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

0

LOC over versions

v3.18: 3,683 LOCv3.19: 3,691 LOCv3.20: 3,718 LOCv3.21: 3,796 LOCv3.22: 3,859 LOCv3.23: 3,926 LOC

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

Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 235 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
100%
References docs
0%

Topics

Depended on by (1)

Bioconductor (1)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("QTLExperiment")
Dunstone, A., Del Azodi, C., & McCarthy, D. (2026). QTLExperiment: S4 classes for QTL summary statistics and metadata (Version 2.4.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/QTLExperiment

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 QTLExperiment version 2.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-08. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-08, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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