sparseMatrixStats
Bioc currentSummary Statistics for Rows and Columns of Sparse Matrices
Release Lineage
Entered 3.11 · Apr 28, 2020
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
High performance functions for row and column operations on sparse matrices. For example: col / rowMeans2, col / rowMedians, col / rowVars etc. Currently, the optimizations are limited to data in the column sparse format. This package is inspired by the matrixStats package by Henrik Bengtsson.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
160 0 exported
Complexity
1.5 avg / 5 max
Call network
160 nodes / 176 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
8,119
Files
70
Compiled share
32.4%
Has compiled src
Yes
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
0
Internal functions
39
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.55
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
–
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
0%
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
40%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
–
System requirements
1 externalC++11
C++ standard
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License
MIT + file LICENSE
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
13
First release
2020-05-24
Latest release
2026-04-28
Avg cadence
183 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
- 37
- Examples that run
- 100%36 run in a plain check
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- not tracked
- Return-value docs
- not tracked
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
- sparseMatrixStats HTML
Repository practices
4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/const-ae/sparsematrixstats on 2026-10-18.
The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows
Topics
Depended on by (22)
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Bioconductor (16)
People
- Constantin Ahlmann-Eltze author maintainer
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