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cBioPortalData

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Exposes and Makes Available Data from the cBioPortal Web Resources

v2.24.0 · software · AGPL-3

Release Lineage

Entered 3.11 · Apr 28, 2020

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 13 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

The cBioPortalData R package accesses study datasets from the cBio Cancer Genomics Portal. It accesses the data either from the pre-packaged zip / tar files or from the API interface that was recently implemented by the cBioPortal Data Team. The package can provide data in either tabular format or with MultiAssayExperiment object that uses familiar Bioconductor data representations.

Test coverage

Line coverage

Expression

Tests / Examples

Functions

88 28 exported

Complexity

2.7 avg / 9 max

Call network

88 nodes / 107 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

4,171

Files

57

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 2,163 (51.9%)Tests 85 (2%)Docs 843 (20.2%)Vignettes 1,080 (25.9%)

API

Exported functions

28

Internal functions

57

Recent export changes

v3.23−1 removeDataCache
v3.21+1 copyNumberData

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.04

testthat edition

CI present

Yes

CI type

["github-actions"]

PR gated

Yes

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

0%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

19%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.5.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

AGPL-3

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

13

First release

2020-08-26

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

153 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

3

LOC over versions

v3.11: 2,697 LOCv3.12: 2,898 LOCv3.13: 3,360 LOCv3.14: 3,431 LOCv3.15: 3,883 LOCv3.16: 4,008 LOCv3.17: 4,009 LOCv3.18: 4,094 LOCv3.19: 4,099 LOCv3.20: 4,099 LOCv3.21: 4,334 LOCv3.22: 4,301 LOCv3.23: 4,171 LOC

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

Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 360 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteYesNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
97%
Return-value docs
100%
References docs
0%

Topics

Depended on by (7)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("cBioPortalData")
Ramos, M., Mezhoud, K., & Waldron, L. (2026). cBioPortalData: Exposes and Makes Available Data from the cBioPortal Web Resources (Version 2.24.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/cBioPortalData

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for cBioPortalData version 2.24.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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