biocViews
Bioc currentCategorized views of R package repositories
Release Lineage
Entered 1.7 · Oct 14, 2005
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
Infrastructure to support 'views' used to classify Bioconductor packages. 'biocViews' are directed acyclic graphs of terms from a controlled vocabulary. There are three major classifications, corresponding to 'software', 'annotation', and 'experiment data' packages.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
87 30 exported
Complexity
3.4 avg / 24 max
Call network
87 nodes / 76 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
4,811
Files
75
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
30
Internal functions
55
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.00
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
100%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
35.3%
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
20%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
3.6.0
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
Artistic-2.0
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
42
First release
2005-10-12
Latest release
2026-04-28
Avg cadence
182 days
Cold removal rate
100%
Dep drift
12
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 36includes a package overview page
- Examples that run
- 92%12 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
- Exported functions with examples
- 36%
- Documented parameters
- 100%
- Return-value docs
- 44%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
Repository practices
Checks run against github.com/bioconductor/biocviews on 2026-10-21.
No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.
Datasets
Topics
Depended on by (9)
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Bioconductor (8)
CRAN (1)
Suggested by (4)
People
- Bioconductor Package Maintainer maintainer
- Sonali Arora author
- Vincent Carey author
- Seth Falcon author
- Benjamin Harshfield author
- Lori Shepherd author
Cite
Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:
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Cite the R Observatory
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