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Legacy Utilities for Single-Cell RNA-Seq Analysis

v1.22.0 · software · GPL-3

Release Lineage

Entered 3.12 · Oct 28, 2020

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 12 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Provides some legacy utility functions for performing single-cell analyses. Most of these functions are deprecated in favor of newer, more performant alternatives. We just keep this package around for back-compatibility and to point to the replacement functions.

Test coverage

Line coverage

Expression

Tests / Examples

Functions

115 32 exported

Complexity

3.5 avg / 15 max

Call network

115 nodes / 84 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

12,782

Files

121

Compiled share

7.5%

Has compiled src

Yes

Language breakdown

R 4,931 (38.6%)C/C++/src 960 (7.5%)Tests 3,410 (26.7%)Docs 3,296 (25.8%)Vignettes 185 (1.4%)

API

Exported functions

53

Internal functions

59

Recent export changes

v3.20+1 uniquifyDataFrameByGroup

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.69

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

100%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

System requirements

1

C++ standard

License

GPL-3

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

12

First release

2020-12-16

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

Dep drift

4

LOC over versions

v3.12: 9,784 LOCv3.13: 12,340 LOCv3.14: 12,340 LOCv3.15: 12,364 LOCv3.16: 12,374 LOCv3.17: 12,560 LOCv3.18: 12,560 LOCv3.19: 12,561 LOCv3.20: 12,679 LOCv3.21: 12,679 LOCv3.22: 12,679 LOCv3.23: 12,782 LOC

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

Documentation

Documentation
READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
97%
Return-value docs
95%
References docs
5%

Topics

Depended on by (76)

CRAN (4)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("scuttle")
Lun, A., & McCarthy, D. (2026). scuttle: Legacy Utilities for Single-Cell RNA-Seq Analysis (Version 1.22.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/scuttle

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 scuttle version 1.22.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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