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beachmat

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Compiling Bioconductor to Handle Each Matrix Type

v2.28.0 · software · GPL-3

Release Lineage

Entered 3.6 · Oct 31, 2017

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 18 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Provides a consistent C++ class interface for reading from a variety of commonly used matrix types. Ordinary matrices and several sparse/dense Matrix classes are directly supported, along with a subset of the delayed operations implemented in the DelayedArray package. All other matrix-like objects are supported by calling back into R.

Test coverage

Line coverage

Expression

Tests / Examples

Functions

159 38 exported

Complexity

1.9 avg / 18 max

Call network

159 nodes / 98 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

5,589

Files

91

Compiled share

26.6%

Has compiled src

Yes

Language breakdown

R 1,459 (26.1%)C/C++/src 1,488 (26.6%)Tests 1,861 (33.3%)Docs 557 (10%)Vignettes 224 (4%)

API

Exported functions

39

Internal functions

49

Recent export changes

v3.9−4 getBestChunkDims, pkgconfig, rechunkByMargins 1 more
v3.8+1 supportCppAccess

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

1.28

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Roxygen coverage

94.9%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

16.7%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

System requirements

1

C++ standard

License

GPL-3

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

18

First release

2017-11-25

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

9

LOC over versions

v3.6: 5,571 LOCv3.7: 6,875 LOCv3.8: 8,038 LOCv3.9: 1,436 LOCv3.10: 1,436 LOCv3.11: 1,436 LOCv3.12: 2,396 LOCv3.13: 3,107 LOCv3.14: 3,107 LOCv3.15: 3,107 LOCv3.16: 3,107 LOCv3.17: 3,107 LOCv3.18: 4,108 LOCv3.19: 4,122 LOCv3.20: 4,961 LOCv3.21: 5,259 LOCv3.22: 5,368 LOCv3.23: 5,589 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.

Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 57 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
100%
References docs
0%

Topics

Depended on by (19)

CRAN (1)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("beachmat")
Lun, A., Pagès, H., & Smith, M. (2026). beachmat: Compiling Bioconductor to Handle Each Matrix Type (Version 2.28.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/beachmat

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Cite the R Observatory

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for beachmat version 2.28.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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