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An R interface to the Ontology Lookup Service

v3.8.3 · Package record · software · GPL-2

Release Lineage

Entered 2.11 · Oct 3, 2012

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 28 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

The rols package is an interface to the Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) to access and query hundred of ontolgies directly from R.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

36 14 exported

Complexity

2.3 avg / 10 max

Call network

36 nodes / 17 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

3,696

Files

24

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 2,042 (55.2%)Tests 370 (10%)Docs 959 (25.9%)Vignettes 325 (8.8%)

API

Exported functions

14

Internal functions

21

Recent export changes

v3.6+2 as.Term.data.frame, as.Terms.data.frame

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.18

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

–

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.1.0

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

GPL-2

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

28

First release

2013-01-15

Latest release

2026-09-02

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

13

LOC over versions

v2.11: 3,829 LOCv2.12: 3,863 LOCv2.13: 3,862 LOCv2.14: 3,802 LOCv3.0: 3,791 LOCv3.1: 3,791 LOCv3.2: 4,150 LOCv3.3: 3,006 LOCv3.4: 3,008 LOCv3.5: 3,024 LOCv3.6: 3,137 LOCv3.7: 3,137 LOCv3.8: 3,275 LOCv3.9: 3,271 LOCv3.10: 3,271 LOCv3.11: 3,273 LOCv3.12: 3,273 LOCv3.13: 3,325 LOCv3.14: 3,321 LOCv3.15: 3,336 LOCv3.16: 3,341 LOCv3.17: 3,341 LOCv3.18: 3,549 LOCv3.19: 3,601 LOCv3.20: 3,601 LOCv3.21: 3,601 LOCv3.22: 3,613 LOCv3.23: 3,696 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
README· In the Bioconductor git repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYesCitation fileNoWebsiteYes
Help pages
5
Examples that run
100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
100%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
0%
Help pages citing references
80%

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/shbrief/rols on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)
GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-10 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)
Coverage reporting
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Topics

Maintainer
Sehyun Oh

Available on

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Depended on by (1)

Bioconductor (1)

Suggested by (1)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rols")
Oh, S., Chedraoui Silva, T., Clugston, A., Gatto, L., & Waldron, L. (2026). rols: An R interface to the Ontology Lookup Service (Version 3.8.3) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/rols

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 rols version 3.8.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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