basilisk
Bioc currentFreezing Python Dependencies Inside Bioconductor Packages
Release Lineage
Entered 3.11 · Apr 28, 2020
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
Installs a self-contained conda instance that is managed by the R/Bioconductor installation machinery. This aims to provide a consistent Python environment that can be used reliably by Bioconductor packages. Functions are also provided to enable smooth interoperability of multiple Python environments in a single R session.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
42 31 exported
Complexity
2.1 avg / 10 max
Call network
42 nodes / 48 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
2,877
Files
62
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
32
Internal functions
11
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.37
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
100%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
0%
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
0%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
–
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
GPL-3
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
13
First release
2020-05-11
Latest release
2026-04-28
Avg cadence
182 days
Cold removal rate
100%
Dep drift
5
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 18
- Examples that run
- 94%15 run in a plain check · 1 never run
- Exported functions with examples
- 89%
- Documented parameters
- 100%
- Return-value docs
- 94%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
- Motivation HTML
Repository practices
1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/ltla/basilisk on 2026-10-21.
The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors
Topics
Depended on by (35)
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Bioconductor (35)
Suggested by (3)
People
- Aaron Lun author maintainer copyright holder
- Vince Carey contributor
Cite
Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' entry:
citation("basilisk")The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.
It points to 10.21105/joss.04742.
Cite the R Observatory
For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.
From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.