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Rbowtie

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R bowtie wrapper

v1.52.0 · Package record · software · Artistic-2.0 | file LICENSE

Release Lineage

Entered 2.9 · Nov 1, 2011

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 30 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

This package provides an R wrapper around the popular bowtie short read aligner and around SpliceMap, a de novo splice junction discovery and alignment tool. The package is used by the QuasR bioconductor package. We recommend to use the QuasR package instead of using Rbowtie directly.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

1077 0 exported

Complexity

12.9 avg / 40 max

Call network

1077 nodes / 2168 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

62,379

Files

153

Compiled share

97.8%

Has compiled src

Yes

Language breakdown

R 463 (0.7%)C/C++/src 60,992 (97.8%)Tests 307 (0.5%)Docs 413 (0.7%)Vignettes 204 (0.3%)

API

Exported functions

6

Internal functions

3

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.66

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

–

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

50%

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

1 externalGNU make

C++ standard

–

License

Artistic-2.0 | file LICENSE

License flags

SPDX valid, not OSI

History

Versions

30

First release

2011-10-31

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

–

Dep drift

1

LOC over versions

v2.9: 89,856 LOCv2.10: 97,470 LOCv2.11: 97,470 LOCv2.12: 99,573 LOCv2.13: 99,573 LOCv2.14: 101,286 LOCv3.0: 101,286 LOCv3.1: 101,417 LOCv3.2: 101,417 LOCv3.3: 101,417 LOCv3.4: 101,417 LOCv3.5: 101,417 LOCv3.6: 101,417 LOCv3.7: 101,417 LOCv3.8: 101,418 LOCv3.9: 105,593 LOCv3.10: 105,593 LOCv3.11: 105,876 LOCv3.12: 105,876 LOCv3.13: 62,333 LOCv3.14: 62,333 LOCv3.15: 62,333 LOCv3.16: 62,333 LOCv3.17: 62,379 LOCv3.18: 62,379 LOCv3.19: 62,379 LOCv3.20: 62,379 LOCv3.21: 62,379 LOCv3.22: 62,379 LOCv3.23: 62,379 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 · 162 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publication
Help pages
3includes a package overview page
Examples that run
100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
100%
Documented parameters
not tracked
Return-value docs
not tracked
Help pages citing references
100%

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/fmicompbio/rbowtie on 2026-10-25.

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 (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-01-29 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)
Coverage reporting
Lint, format, editor (1)
RStudio project
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Topics

Maintainer
Michael Stadler

Available on

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Depended on by (5)

Suggested by (2)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Rbowtie")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 Rbowtie version 1.52.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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