rBLAST
Bioc currentR Interface for the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
Release Lineage
Entered 3.19 · May 1, 2024
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
Seamlessly interfaces the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) running locally to search genetic sequence data bases. This work was partially supported by grant no. R21HG005912 from the National Human Genome Research Institute.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
9 6 exported
Complexity
3.4 avg / 10 max
Call network
9 nodes / 7 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
1,186
Files
19
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
6
Internal functions
2
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.07
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
100%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
100%
Unsafe pattern score
2
Dep constraint coverage
25%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
–
System requirements
1 externalncbi-blast+
C++ standard
–
License
GPL-3
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
5
First release
2024-04-30
Latest release
2026-04-28
Avg cadence
182 days
Cold removal rate
–
Dep drift
0
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
- Examples that run
- 100%3 run in a plain check
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 100%
- Return-value docs
- 100%
- Help pages citing references
- 25%
Repository practices
2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/mhahsler/rblast on 2026-10-21.
Topics
Depended on by (1)
Bioconductor (1)
People
- Michael Hahsler author maintainer
- Nagar Anurag author
Cite
Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' entry:
citation("rBLAST")The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.
It points to 10.18129/b9.bioc.rblast.
Cite the R Observatory
For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.
From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.