S4Arrays
Bioc currentFoundation of array-like containers in Bioconductor
Release Lineage
Entered 3.17 · Apr 26, 2023
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
The S4Arrays package defines the Array virtual class to be extended by other S4 classes that wish to implement a container with an array-like semantic. It also provides: (1) low-level functionality meant to help the developer of such container to implement basic operations like display, subsetting, or coercion of their array-like objects to an ordinary matrix or array, and (2) a framework that facilitates block processing of array-like objects (typically on-disk objects).
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
216 29 exported
Complexity
2.9 avg / 12 max
Call network
216 nodes / 178 edges
Test coverage is not measured for Bioconductor packages; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.
Call graph
Open call graph →Lowest coverage
Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.
Code
Structure
Lines of code
8,669
Files
61
Compiled share
12%
Has compiled src
Yes
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
55
Internal functions
171
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.10
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
100%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
–
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
28.6%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
4.3.0
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
Artistic-2.0
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
7
First release
2023-08-30
Latest release
2026-09-21
Avg cadence
184 days
Cold removal rate
–
Dep drift
1
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 18 (5 internal)
- Examples that run
- 100%15 run in a plain check
- Exported functions with examples
- 82%
- Documented parameters
- 71%
- Return-value docs
- 76%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
Repository practices
1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/bioconductor/s4arrays on 2026-10-18.
GitHub Pages site
Topics
Depended on by (16)
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Bioconductor (16)
Suggested by (2)
People
- Hervé Pagès author maintainer
- Jacques Serizay contributor
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