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flowStats

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Statistical methods for the analysis of flow cytometry data

v4.24.0 · Package record · software · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 2.4 · Apr 21, 2009

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 35 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Methods and functionality to analyse flow data that is beyond the basic infrastructure provided by the flowCore package.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

120 24 exported

Complexity

6.9 avg / 63 max

Call network

120 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

11,659

Files

74

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 7,970 (68.4%)Tests 176 (1.5%)Docs 3,106 (26.6%)Vignettes 407 (3.5%)

API

Exported functions

28

Internal functions

96

Recent export changes

v3.9+1 spillover_ng
v3.8+2 curvPeaks, overton_like

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.02

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

75%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

13.6%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

3.0.2

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

Artistic-2.0

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

35

First release

2009-04-20

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

16

LOC over versions

v2.4: 2,025 LOCv2.5: 4,476 LOCv2.6: 4,859 LOCv2.7: 4,995 LOCv2.8: 4,995 LOCv2.9: 4,995 LOCv2.10: 6,310 LOCv2.11: 6,310 LOCv2.12: 6,844 LOCv2.13: 7,145 LOCv2.14: 8,730 LOCv3.0: 8,687 LOCv3.1: 8,688 LOCv3.2: 8,987 LOCv3.3: 9,055 LOCv3.4: 9,057 LOCv3.5: 9,064 LOCv3.6: 9,068 LOCv3.7: 9,068 LOCv3.8: 9,244 LOCv3.9: 9,561 LOCv3.10: 10,600 LOCv3.11: 10,585 LOCv3.12: 10,607 LOCv3.13: 10,607 LOCv3.14: 10,607 LOCv3.15: 11,623 LOCv3.16: 11,623 LOCv3.17: 11,623 LOCv3.18: 11,659 LOCv3.19: 11,659 LOCv3.20: 11,659 LOCv3.21: 11,659 LOCv3.22: 11,659 LOCv3.23: 11,659 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
READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION
Help pages
37includes a package overview page
Examples that run
80%20 run in a plain check · 4 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples
80%
Documented parameters
87%
Return-value docs
92%
Help pages citing references
14%
Vignettes (1)

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rglab/flowstats on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)
GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on macOS

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 2
NameClassSizeAlso in
BackGatingdata.frame12,762 × 7No other package
ITN–––

All of flowStats's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Greg Finak

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

Depended on by (3)

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for flowStats version 4.24.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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