VISTA
Bioc currentVisualization and Integrated System for Transcriptomic Analysis
Release Lineage
Entered 3.23 · Apr 29, 2026
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
The VISTA (Visualization and Integrated System for Transcriptomic Analysis) platform streamlines differential expression workflows by wrapping DESeq2 and edgeR into a SummarizedExperiment-based container with consistent metadata. The package includes visualization utilities, MSigDB enrichment helpers, and optional deconvolution support to simplify interactive exploration of RNA-seq experiments.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
198 68 exported
Complexity
11.3 avg / 95 max
Call network
198 nodes / 358 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
31,103
Files
140
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
77
Internal functions
127
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.19
testthat edition
3
Docs
Roxygen coverage
100%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
100%
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
0%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
4.3
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
GPL-3
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
1
First release
2026-04-28
Latest release
2026-04-28
Avg cadence
–
Cold removal rate
–
Dep drift
0
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 87 (15 internal)
- Examples that run
- 93%65 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition) · 5 never run
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 95%
- Return-value docs
- 100%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
Repository practices
7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/cparsania/vista on 2026-10-11.
The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux
GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow
pkgdown site last built 2026-08-06
Datasets
| Name | Class | Size | Also in |
|---|---|---|---|
| count_data | tibble | 63,677 × 9 | No other package |
| sample_metadata | tibble | 8 × 13 | No other package |
1 internal object is bundled for the package's own use and not listed here.
Topics
People
- Chirag Parsania author maintainer
Cite
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