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mzR

Bioc current

parser for netCDF, mzXML and mzML and mzIdentML files (mass spectrometry data)

v2.46.0 · software · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 2.9 · Nov 1, 2011

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 30 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

mzR provides a unified API to the common file formats and parsers available for mass spectrometry data. It comes with a subset of the proteowizard library for mzXML, mzML and mzIdentML. The netCDF reading code has previously been used in XCMS.

Test coverage

Line coverage

Expression

Tests / Examples

Functions

30337 5 exported

Complexity

3 avg / 13 max

Call network

30337 nodes / 43726 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

1,142,456

Files

5,815

Compiled share

99.8%

Has compiled src

Yes

Language breakdown

R 1,225 (0.1%)C/C++/src 1,140,017 (99.8%)Tests 8 (0%)Docs 835 (0.1%)Vignettes 371 (0%)

API

Exported functions

5

Internal functions

26

Recent export changes

v3.6+1 copyWriteMSData
v3.5+1 nChrom

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.01

testthat edition

CI present

Yes

CI type

["github-actions","travis"]

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

42.9%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.0.0

System requirements

2

C++ standard

License

Artistic-2.0

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

25

First release

2011-11-17

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

189 days

Cold removal rate

Dep drift

4

LOC over versions

v2.9: 520,741 LOCv2.10: 730,839 LOCv3.0: 1,200,162 LOCv3.1: 1,209,478 LOCv3.2: 1,209,478 LOCv3.4: 1,685,370 LOCv3.5: 685,671 LOCv3.6: 686,526 LOCv3.7: 686,924 LOCv3.8: 684,654 LOCv3.9: 684,683 LOCv3.10: 685,260 LOCv3.11: 690,002 LOCv3.12: 690,486 LOCv3.13: 690,562 LOCv3.14: 690,562 LOCv3.15: 1,138,053 LOCv3.16: 1,138,053 LOCv3.17: 1,140,627 LOCv3.18: 1,140,627 LOCv3.19: 1,140,833 LOCv3.20: 1,141,674 LOCv3.21: 1,141,690 LOCv3.22: 1,142,486 LOCv3.23: 1,142,456 LOC

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

Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 180 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
83%
Return-value docs
0%
References docs
13%

Topics

Depended on by (39)

CRAN (2)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mzR")
Neumann, S., Gatto, L., Kou, Q., Manier, S., Rainer, J., Rauh, D., & Rutz, A. (2026). mzR: parser for netCDF, mzXML and mzML and mzIdentML files (mass spectrometry data) (Version 2.46.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/mzR

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 mzR version 2.46.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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