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TCGAutils

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TCGA utility functions for data management

v1.32.2 · Package record · software · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 3.7 · May 1, 2018

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 17 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

A suite of helper functions for checking and manipulating TCGA data including data obtained from the curatedTCGAData experiment package. These functions aim to simplify and make working with TCGA data more manageable. Exported functions include those that import data from flat files into Bioconductor objects, convert row annotations, and identifier translation via the GDC API.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

80 32 exported

Complexity

3.1 avg / 12 max

Call network

80 nodes / 78 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

4,665

Files

61

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 2,571 (55.1%)Tests 289 (6.2%)Docs 1,241 (26.6%)Vignettes 564 (12.1%)

API

Exported functions

32

Internal functions

46

Recent export changes

v3.9+3 CpGtoRanges, getFileName, trimColData  −1 getFileNames
v3.8+8 UUIDtoUUID, filenameToBarcode, imputeAssay +5 more

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.11

testthat edition

–

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

4.5.0

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

Artistic-2.0

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

17

First release

2018-06-18

Latest release

2026-07-02

Avg cadence

186 days

Cold removal rate

66.7%

Dep drift

6

LOC over versions

v3.7: 2,410 LOCv3.8: 3,188 LOCv3.9: 3,448 LOCv3.10: 4,079 LOCv3.11: 4,122 LOCv3.12: 4,264 LOCv3.13: 4,322 LOCv3.14: 4,383 LOCv3.15: 4,526 LOCv3.16: 4,583 LOCv3.17: 4,597 LOCv3.18: 4,505 LOCv3.19: 4,530 LOCv3.20: 4,530 LOCv3.21: 4,583 LOCv3.22: 4,591 LOCv3.23: 4,665 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 · 94 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structuredCitation fileNo
Help pages
22 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run
100%17 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
100%
Documented parameters
99%
Return-value docs
100%
Help pages citing references
0%
Vignettes (1)

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/waldronlab/tcgautils on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)
GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow
Docs source (2)
pkgdown

GitHub Pages site

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 5
NameClassSizeAlso in
blca_cnaseqdata.frame232 × 6No other package
bt.exon_quantificationdata.frame100 × 4No other package
clinicalNames–––
diseaseCodesdata.frame37 × 4No other package
sampleTypesdata.frame22 × 3No other package

All of TCGAutils's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Marcel Ramos

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

Depended on by (5)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("TCGAutils")
Ramos, M., NCI, Davis, S., Schiffer, L., & Waldron, L. (2026). TCGAutils: TCGA utility functions for data management (Version 1.32.2) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/TCGAutils

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for TCGAutils version 1.32.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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