topGO
Bioc currentEnrichment Analysis for Gene Ontology
Release Lineage
Entered 2.0 · Apr 26, 2007
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
topGO package provides tools for testing GO terms while accounting for the topology of the GO graph. Different test statistics and different methods for eliminating local similarities and dependencies between GO terms can be implemented and applied.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
52 26 exported
Complexity
3.6 avg / 15 max
Call network
52 nodes / 36 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
8,523
Files
45
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
26
Internal functions
26
Testing
Has tests
No
Test-to-code ratio
0.00
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
92.3%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
0%
Unsafe pattern score
6
Dep constraint coverage
60%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
2.10.0
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
LGPL
License flags
not SPDX, not OSI
History
Versions
39
First release
2007-08-07
Latest release
2026-04-28
Avg cadence
184 days
Cold removal rate
100%
Dep drift
8
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 23includes a package overview page
- Examples that run
- 78%14 run in a plain check · 1 never run · 3 hold no code
- Exported functions with examples
- 90%
- Documented parameters
- 98%
- Return-value docs
- 80%
- Help pages citing references
- 4%
Repository practices
5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/federicomarini/topgo on 2026-10-22.
The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel
GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-07-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow
Datasets
| Name | Class | Size | Also in |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOdata | – | – | – |
| affyLib | vector | 1 element | No other package |
| geneList | vector | 323 elements | No other package |
| resultFisher | – | – | – |
| resultKS | – | – | – |
| topDiffGenes | – | – | – |
Topics
Depended on by (27)
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Bioconductor (27)
People
- Federico Marini maintainer
- Adrian Alexa author
- Jörg Rahnenführer author
Cite
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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:
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