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spatialDE

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R wrapper for SpatialDE

v1.18.0 · Package record · software · MIT + file LICENSE

Release Lineage

Entered 3.14 · Oct 27, 2021

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 10 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

SpatialDE is a method to find spatially variable genes (SVG) from spatial transcriptomics data. This package provides wrappers to use the Python SpatialDE library in R, using reticulate and basilisk.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

21 7 exported

Complexity

1.7 avg / 8 max

Call network

21 nodes / 27 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

2,525

Files

41

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 1,246 (49.3%)Tests 197 (7.8%)Docs 787 (31.2%)Vignettes 295 (11.7%)

API

Exported functions

11

Internal functions

14

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.16

testthat edition

3

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

–

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

8.3%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.3

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

MIT + file LICENSE

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

10

First release

2021-10-26

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

–

Dep drift

1

LOC over versions

v3.14: 2,400 LOCv3.15: 2,400 LOCv3.16: 2,523 LOCv3.17: 2,523 LOCv3.18: 2,524 LOCv3.19: 2,524 LOCv3.20: 2,524 LOCv3.21: 2,525 LOCv3.22: 2,525 LOCv3.23: 2,525 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 · 358 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION
Help pages
14 (1 internal)
Examples that run
100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
100%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
100%
Help pages citing references
71%

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/sales-lab/spatialde on 2026-10-25.

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 (Codecov)
Reproducibility and dev environment (1)
data-raw/
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 2
NameClassSizeAlso in
MOB_sample_infodata.frame260 × 3No other package
Rep11_MOB_0matrix16,218 × 262No other package

All of spatialDE's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Gabriele Sales

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

Suggested by (1)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("spatialDE")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 spatialDE version 1.18.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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