XVector
Bioc currentFoundation of external vector representation and manipulation in Bioconductor
Release Lineage
Entered 2.13 · Oct 15, 2013
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
Provides memory efficient S4 classes for storing sequences "externally" (e.g. behind an R external pointer, or on disk).
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
335 18 exported
Complexity
3.2 avg / 14 max
Call network
335 nodes / 351 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
11,079
Files
72
Compiled share
55.2%
Has compiled src
Yes
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
24
Internal functions
98
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.00
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
79.2%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
0%
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
27.3%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
4.0.0
System requirements
–
C++ standard
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License
Artistic-2.0
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
26
First release
2013-10-14
Latest release
2026-04-28
Avg cadence
182 days
Cold removal rate
100%
Dep drift
6
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 14 (1 internal)
- Examples that run
- 78%7 run in a plain check · 2 hold no code
- Exported functions with examples
- 60%
- Documented parameters
- 14%
- Return-value docs
- 20%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
Repository practices
Checks run against github.com/bioconductor/xvector on 2026-10-21.
No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.
Topics
Depended on by (36)
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Bioconductor (35)
CRAN (1)
Suggested by (8)
People (from the free-text Author field)
Cite
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