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Rhisat2

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R Wrapper for HISAT2 Aligner

v1.28.1 · Package record · software · GPL-3

Release Lineage

Entered 3.9 · May 3, 2019

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 15 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

An R interface to the HISAT2 spliced short-read aligner by Kim et al. (2015). The package contains wrapper functions to create a genome index and to perform the read alignment to the generated index.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

2240 6 exported

Complexity

6 avg / 21 max

Call network

2240 nodes / 4743 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

153,545

Files

418

Compiled share

99.2%

Has compiled src

Yes

Language breakdown

R 432 (0.3%)C/C++/src 152,318 (99.2%)Tests 279 (0.2%)Docs 336 (0.2%)Vignettes 180 (0.1%)

API

Exported functions

6

Internal functions

2

Recent export changes

v3.9+6 extract_splice_sites, hisat2, hisat2_build +3 more

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.65

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

0%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.4.0

System requirements

1 externalGNU make

C++ standard

–

License

GPL-3

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

15

First release

2019-06-11

Latest release

2026-07-29

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

–

Dep drift

2

LOC over versions

v3.9: 115,470 LOCv3.10: 115,470 LOCv3.11: 115,470 LOCv3.12: 115,484 LOCv3.13: 115,484 LOCv3.14: 115,484 LOCv3.15: 115,484 LOCv3.16: 153,546 LOCv3.17: 153,546 LOCv3.18: 153,546 LOCv3.19: 153,545 LOCv3.20: 153,545 LOCv3.21: 153,545 LOCv3.22: 153,545 LOCv3.23: 153,545 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 · 207 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileNo
Help pages
9 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run
100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
100%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
100%
Help pages citing references
44%
Vignettes (1)

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fmicompbio/rhisat2 on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)
GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Coverage (1)
Coverage reporting
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 3
NameClassSizeAlso in
genes.granges–––
hisat2_splice_sitesdata.frame25 × 4No other package
hisat2_splice_sites_diffchrdata.frame15 × 4No other package

All of Rhisat2's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Charlotte Soneson

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

Depended on by (2)

Bioconductor (2)

Suggested by (2)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Rhisat2")
Soneson, C. (2026). Rhisat2: R Wrapper for HISAT2 Aligner (Version 1.28.1) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rhisat2

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 Rhisat2 version 1.28.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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