SummarizedExperiment
Bioc currentA container (S4 class) for matrix-like assays
Release Lineage
Entered 3.2 · Oct 14, 2015
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
The SummarizedExperiment container contains one or more assays, each represented by a matrix-like object of numeric or other mode. The rows typically represent genomic ranges of interest and the columns represent samples.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
53 9 exported
Complexity
4.1 avg / 20 max
Call network
53 nodes / 41 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
6,499
Files
51
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
21
Internal functions
38
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.00
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
90.5%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
–
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
50%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
4.0.0
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
Artistic-2.0
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
22
First release
2015-12-31
Latest release
2026-04-28
Avg cadence
181 days
Cold removal rate
100%
Dep drift
9
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 11
- Examples that run
- 100%11 run in a plain check
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 98%
- Return-value docs
- 50%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
- No significant changes in this version.
From NEWS in the release
Repository practices
Checks run against github.com/bioconductor/summarizedexperiment on 2026-10-25.
No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.
Topics
Depended on by (925)
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Bioconductor (900)
CRAN (25)
Suggested by (147)
People
- Hervé Pagès author maintainer
- Jim Hester author
- Martin Morgan author
- Valerie Obenchain author
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