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flowCore: Basic structures for flow cytometry data

v2.24.0 · Package record · software · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 2.0 · Apr 26, 2007

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 39 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Provides S4 data structures and basic functions to deal with flow cytometry data.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

261 72 exported

Complexity

4 avg / 59 max

Call network

261 nodes / 145 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

33,619

Files

217

Compiled share

6.3%

Has compiled src

Yes

Language breakdown

R 18,522 (55.1%)C/C++/src 2,112 (6.3%)Tests 1,882 (5.6%)Docs 9,598 (28.5%)Vignettes 1,505 (4.5%)

API

Exported functions

104

Internal functions

97

Recent export changes

v3.9+16 markernames<-, collapse_desc, decompensate +13 more  −6 as.data.frame.manyFilterResult, compensateView, nodes 3 more
v3.8+2 spillover_ng, fr_append_cols

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.10

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

92.3%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

50%

Unsafe pattern score

3

Dep constraint coverage

16.7%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

3.0.2

System requirements

2 externalGNU make, C++17

C++ standard

C++17

License

Artistic-2.0

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

39

First release

2007-05-04

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

185 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

24

LOC over versions

v2.0: 4,450 LOCv2.1: 5,450 LOCv2.2: 8,146 LOCv2.3: 20,469 LOCv2.4: 22,360 LOCv2.6: 23,204 LOCv2.7: 23,838 LOCv2.8: 23,843 LOCv2.5: 23,159 LOCv2.9: 23,898 LOCv2.10: 24,028 LOCv2.11: 24,214 LOCv2.12: 24,539 LOCv2.13: 27,971 LOCv2.14: 27,338 LOCv3.0: 27,523 LOCv3.1: 33,209 LOCv3.2: 33,532 LOCv3.3: 33,710 LOCv3.4: 34,723 LOCv3.5: 34,814 LOCv3.6: 29,262 LOCv3.7: 29,652 LOCv3.8: 30,313 LOCv3.9: 41,117 LOCv3.10: 33,059 LOCv3.11: 33,348 LOCv3.12: 33,405 LOCv3.13: 33,702 LOCv3.14: 33,702 LOCv3.15: 33,702 LOCv3.16: 33,572 LOCv3.17: 33,617 LOCv3.18: 33,619 LOCv3.19: 33,619 LOCv3.20: 33,619 LOCv3.21: 33,619 LOCv3.22: 33,619 LOCv3.23: 33,619 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
READMEYes · 59 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION
Help pages
116 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run
95%81 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples
85%
Documented parameters
91%
Return-value docs
54%
Help pages citing references
20%

Repository practices

Bioconductor git repository

Checks read the Bioconductor git repository (git.bioconductor.org), branch RELEASE_3_23.

4 practices detected in the Bioconductor git repository

Continuous integration (3)
GitHub ActionsTravis CI (config file)PR checks
Docs source (1)
pkgdown

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 1
NameClassSizeAlso in
GvHD–––

All of flowCore's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Mike Jiang

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

Depended on by (73)

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citation("flowCore")
Jiang, M., Ellis, B., Finak, G., Gopalakrishnan, N., Granjeaud, S., Haaland, P., Hahne, F., Le Meur, N., & Spidlen, J. (2026). flowCore: flowCore: Basic structures for flow cytometry data (Version 2.24.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/flowCore

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for flowCore version 2.24.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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