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Probabilistic Factor Analysis for Spatially-Aware Dimension Reduction

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Overview

About

Probabilistic factor analysis for spatially-aware dimension reduction across multi-section spatial transcriptomics data with millions of spatial locations. More details can be referred to Wei Liu, et al. (2023) doi:10.1101/2023.07.11.548486.

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CRAN checks
1ERROR12OK
Check messages
ERRORexamplesr-oldrel-macos-arm64
Running examples in ‘ProFAST-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: diagnostic.cor.eigs
> ### Title: Determine the dimension of low dimensional embedding
> ### Aliases: diagnostic.cor.eigs diagnostic.cor.eigs.default
> ###   diagnostic.cor.eigs.Seurat
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> n <- 100
> p <- 50
> d <- 15
> object <- matrix(rnorm(n*d), n, d) %*% matrix(rnorm(d*p), d, p)
> diagnostic.cor.eigs(object, n.sims=2)
Warning in diagnostic.cor.eigs.default(object, n.sims = 2) :
  q_max is not less than the number of columns of X. Set it as ncol(X) - 1
Warning in irlba::irlba(A = Y/sqrt(n), nv = q_max) :
  You're computing too large a percentage of total singular values, use a standard svd instead.

 Progress:                                                                  100%
 Progress: ────────────────────────────────                                 100%
 *** caught segfault ***
address 0x110, cause 'invalid permissions'

Traceback:
 1: irlba::irlba(A = X1/sqrt(n), nv =
...[truncated]...
 options$seed,     label = labels[[i]])
58: furrr_template(args = x, fn = fn, dots = dots, n = n, options = options,     progress = progress, type = type, names = names, env_globals = env_globals,     expr = expr, extract = furrr_map_extract)
59: furrr_map_template(x = .x, fn = .f, dots = list(...), options = .options,     progress = .progress, type = "list", purrr_fn_name = "map",     env_globals = .env_globals)
60: furrr::future_map(1:n.sims, corr_fun, n = n, p = p, .progress = TRUE,     .options = furrr::furrr_options(seed = seed))
61: diagnostic.cor.eigs.default(object, n.sims = 2)
62: diagnostic.cor.eigs(object, n.sims = 2)
An irrecoverable exception occurred. R is aborting now ...
Warning in file(file, open = "r") :
  cannot open file '/Volumes/Temp/tmp/RtmpuOQnZj/file9b8a4bf240f6.txt': No such file or directory
Error in file(file, open = "r") : cannot open the connection
Calls: diagnostic.cor.eigs ... furrr_map_template -> furrr_template -> poll_progress -> file
Execution halted

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Status changes
  • ERROR12 OK, 1 ERRORNow
  • ERROR10 OK, 1 NOTE, 3 ERROR2026-03-10
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Documentation

In release 1.9
READMEYes · 673 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNo
Help pages
25
Examples that run
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Exported functions with examples
50%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
86%
Help pages citing references
56%

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20 commits · Last activity 2026-06-05 · +25% stars, 30d
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2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/feiyoung/profast on 2026-10-18.

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GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-05

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies
22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ProFAST adds 139 packages (84 with compiled code, 132 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB. 1 more not on CRAN is not measured.

Depends (2)
R >= 4.0.0gtools
Imports (15)
LinkingTo (2)
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none
Reverse dependencies
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0indirect
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People (3)
Author, Maintainer since 1.2 (2023)
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Releases (8)

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  • 1.9Latest
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    2026-06-04 · current release · diff ↗
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    2026-04-29 · diff ↗
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    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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    2025-12-14 · diff ↗
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    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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    2025-03-27 · diff ↗
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    2025-03-20 · diff ↗
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    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
  • 1.4
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    2024-03-18 · diff ↗ ·
    added 10 exports
    AddAdj, FAST_single, NCFM, NCFM_fast, coembed_plot, coembedding_umap, diagnostic.cor.eigs, find.signature.genes, get.top.signature.dat, pdistance
  • 1.3
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    2024-01-11 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 5 exports
    AddParSettingProFAST, ProFAST, ProFAST_run, ProFAST_structure, model_set_ProFAST
    added 5 exports
    AddParSettingFAST, FAST, FAST_run, FAST_structure, model_set_FAST
  • 1.2
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    2023-06-08
  • R
    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published
2023-06-08
Total releases
8 / 3 yrs
License
GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R
≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data
2.0 MB / 3 files
Download size
2.1 MB

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citation("ProFAST")
Liu, W., Liu, J., & Zhang, X. (2026). ProFAST: Probabilistic Factor Analysis for Spatially-Aware Dimension Reduction (Version 1.9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ProFAST

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ProFAST version 1.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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