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Flexible, isoform-level differential expression analysis

v2.43.0 · Package record · software · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 3.0 · Oct 14, 2014

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 24 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Tools for statistical analysis of assembled transcriptomes, including flexible differential expression analysis, visualization of transcript structures, and matching of assembled transcripts to annotation.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

31 20 exported

Complexity

8.6 avg / 45 max

Call network

31 nodes / 25 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

5,997

Files

193

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 3,435 (57.3%)Tests 395 (6.6%)Docs 1,827 (30.5%)Vignettes 340 (5.7%)

API

Exported functions

40

Internal functions

11

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

0%

Unsafe pattern score

29

Dep constraint coverage

45.5%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

3.1.1

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

Artistic-2.0

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

24

First release

2015-03-13

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

–

Dep drift

2

LOC over versions

v3.0: 6,245 LOCv3.1: 6,629 LOCv3.2: 6,629 LOCv3.3: 6,686 LOCv3.4: 6,686 LOCv3.5: 5,921 LOCv3.6: 5,921 LOCv3.7: 5,921 LOCv3.8: 5,922 LOCv3.9: 5,922 LOCv3.10: 5,922 LOCv3.11: 5,922 LOCv3.12: 5,922 LOCv3.13: 5,922 LOCv3.14: 6,759 LOCv3.15: 6,759 LOCv3.16: 6,759 LOCv3.17: 6,759 LOCv3.18: 6,759 LOCv3.19: 6,759 LOCv3.20: 6,759 LOCv3.21: 6,759 LOCv3.22: 5,991 LOCv3.23: 5,997 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
README· In the Bioconductor git repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION
Help pages
43includes a package overview page
Examples that run
88%37 run in a plain check · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples
100%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
83%
Help pages citing references
2%

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/alyssafrazee/ballgown on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)
Travis CI (config file)
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 1
NameClassSizeAlso in
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All of ballgown's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Jack Fu

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

Depended on by (2)

Bioconductor (2)

Suggested by (2)

People

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ballgown")
Frazee, A. C., Collado-Torres, L., Fu, J., Jaffe, A. E., & Leek, J. T. (2026). ballgown: Flexible, isoform-level differential expression analysis (Version 2.43.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/ballgown

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 ballgown version 2.43.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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