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visiumStitched

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Enable downstream analysis of Visium capture areas stitched together with Fiji

v1.4.0 · software · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 3.21 · Apr 16, 2025

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 3 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

This package provides helper functions for working with multiple Visium capture areas that overlap each other. This package was developed along with the companion example use case data available from https://github.com/LieberInstitute/visiumStitched_brain. visiumStitched prepares SpaceRanger (10x Genomics) output files so you can stitch the images from groups of capture areas together with Fiji. Then visiumStitched builds a SpatialExperiment object with the stitched data and makes an artificial hexagonal grid enabling the seamless use of spatial clustering methods that rely on such grid to identify neighboring spots, such as PRECAST and BayesSpace. The SpatialExperiment objects created by visiumStitched are compatible with spatialLIBD, which can be used to build interactive websites for stitched SpatialExperiment objects. visiumStitched also enables casting SpatialExperiment objects as Seurat objects.

Test coverage

Line coverage

Expression

Tests / Examples

Functions

18 8 exported

Complexity

3.7 avg / 10 max

Call network

18 nodes / 13 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

4,106

Files

72

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 1,853 (45.1%)Tests 487 (11.9%)Docs 1,014 (24.7%)Vignettes 752 (18.3%)

API

Exported functions

8

Internal functions

10

Recent export changes

v3.21+8 add_array_coords, add_overlap_info, as.Seurat +5 more

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.26

testthat edition

3

CI present

Yes

CI type

["github-actions"]

PR gated

Yes

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

4.8%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.4

System requirements

C++ standard

License

Artistic-2.0

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

3

First release

2025-04-15

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

189 days

Cold removal rate

Dep drift

1

LOC over versions

v3.21: 3,737 LOCv3.22: 4,106 LOCv3.23: 4,106 LOC

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

Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 388 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteYesNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductYesContributing guideYes
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
89%
Return-value docs
100%
References docs
0%

Topics

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("visiumStitched")
Eagles, N. J., & Collado-Torres, L. (2026). visiumStitched: Enable downstream analysis of Visium capture areas stitched together with Fiji (Version 1.4.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/visiumStitched

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 visiumStitched version 1.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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