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Hexbin plots for single cell omics data

v1.26.0 · Package record · software · GPL-3

Release Lineage

Entered 3.10 · Oct 30, 2019

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 14 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Builds hexbin plots for variables and dimension reduction stored in single cell omics data such as SingleCellExperiment. The ideas used in this package are based on the excellent work of Dan Carr, Nicholas Lewin-Koh, Martin Maechler and Thomas Lumley.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

30 9 exported

Complexity

3.4 avg / 15 max

Call network

30 nodes / 31 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

3,501

Files

64

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 1,687 (48.2%)Tests 658 (18.8%)Docs 753 (21.5%)Vignettes 403 (11.5%)

API

Exported functions

10

Internal functions

21

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.39

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

–

Unsafe pattern score

18

Dep constraint coverage

16.7%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

–

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

GPL-3

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

14

First release

2019-12-19

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

9

LOC over versions

v3.10: 2,962 LOCv3.11: 5,062 LOCv3.12: 5,062 LOCv3.13: 5,035 LOCv3.14: 4,946 LOCv3.15: 4,946 LOCv3.16: 4,946 LOCv3.17: 4,946 LOCv3.18: 3,501 LOCv3.19: 3,501 LOCv3.20: 3,501 LOCv3.21: 3,501 LOCv3.22: 3,501 LOCv3.23: 3,501 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 · 252 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION
Help pages
11includes a package overview page
Examples that run
100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
100%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
100%
Help pages citing references
0%

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/saskiafreytag/schex on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)
GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)
README.Rmd
Coverage (1)
Coverage reporting
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Topics

Maintainer
Saskia Freytag

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

Depended on by (2)

Bioconductor (2)

Suggested by (1)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("schex")
Freytag, S., Huang, J., Peng, Z., & Tang, W. (2026). schex: Hexbin plots for single cell omics data (Version 1.26.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/schex

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

Cite the R Observatory

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for schex version 1.26.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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