R Observatory: Metrics for GiANT version 1.3.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GiANT

1.3.4Package record

Gene Set Uncertainty in Enrichment Analysis

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hans A. KestlerCRAN page ↗

Toolbox for various enrichment analysis methods and quantification of uncertainty of gene sets, Schmid et al. (2016) doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw030.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("GiANT", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-giant

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-GiANT

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-GiANT

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.4

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 22includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 88%14 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 32%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,580 · ~6/day · ~194/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27530 days

70790 days

2.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on75 r2u6 autocran1.5K conda_forge363 bioconda

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing GiANT adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

parallelgraphicsgrDevicesmethodsstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

fdrtool st limma globaltest DESeq2 GlobalAncova

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Hans A. Kestler

Maintainer since 1.0 (2015), Author

Johann M. Kraus

Author

Christoph Muessel

Author · added in 1.3

Florian Schmid

Author

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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Christoph Müssel

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.2

Kestler

no longer listed · 1.3.4

Kraus

no longer listed · 1.3.4

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-09-05
1.3.4Latest
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2024-09-05 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-03-24
check problems were not corrected in time BioC package 'GlobalAncova' not used conditionally
1.3.1
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2020-09-29 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-05-04
1.3
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2020-05-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-02-20
check problems were not corrected despite reminders Unconditional use of Suggests package(s) from BioC

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2015-12-29 · diff ↗
1.1
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2015-09-08 · diff ↗
1.0
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2015-08-06
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-08-06
Total releases: 6 / 11 yrs
License: Artistic-2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 806 KB / 1 file
Download size: 2.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("GiANT")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for GiANT version 1.3.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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