splatter
Bioc currentSimple Simulation of Single-cell RNA Sequencing Data
Release Lineage
Entered 3.5 · Apr 25, 2017
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
Splatter is a package for the simulation of single-cell RNA sequencing count data. It provides a simple interface for creating complex simulations that are reproducible and well-documented. Parameters can be estimated from real data and functions are provided for comparing real and simulated datasets.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
154 60 exported
Complexity
3.7 avg / 24 max
Call network
154 nodes / 209 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
20,280
Files
214
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
63
Internal functions
94
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.08
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
100%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
50%
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
5%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
4.0
System requirements
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C++ standard
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License
GPL-3 + file LICENSE
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
19
First release
2017-05-25
Latest release
2026-04-28
Avg cadence
178 days
Cold removal rate
100%
Dep drift
18
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 112 (50 internal)includes a package overview page
- Examples that run
- 81%39 run in a plain check (16 of them under a condition) · 9 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
- Exported functions with examples
- 98%
- Documented parameters
- 98%
- Return-value docs
- 100%
- Help pages citing references
- 9%
- Replace deprecated scuttle functions with scrapper
- Deprecate mfa simulation functions as the mfa package is deprecated
- Adjust help messages in warnings
- Adjust failing lun2Estimate tests
From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release
Repository practices
6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/oshlack/splatter on 2026-10-18.
The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows
GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-08-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow
pkgdown site last built 2025-08-12
Topics
Depended on by (2)
People
-
Luke Zappia
author
maintainer
lazappi
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Christina Azodi
contributor
azodichr
- Alicia Oshlack author
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Belinda Phipson
author
bphipson
Cite
Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' entry:
citation("splatter")The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.
It points to 10.1186/s13059-017-1305-0.
Cite the R Observatory
For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.
From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.