R Observatory: Metrics for SIGN version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SIGN

0.1.0

Similarity Identification in Gene Expression

0packages depend

2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Benjamin Haibe-KainsFirst published 2018-12-181 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides a classification framework to use expression patterns of pathways as features to identify similarity between biological samples. It provides a new measure for quantifying similarity between expression patterns of pathways.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("SIGN", 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-sign

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 8.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-20
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ERROR2026-08-09
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ERROR2026-07-30
10 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
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ERROR2026-07-19
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ERROR2026-07-16
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NOTE2026-07-14
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ERROR2026-03-29
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ERROR2026-03-10
7 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 3 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 83 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,780 · ~5/day · ~166/mo

Releases R versions

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12930 days

52090 days

2K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4

Imports (5)

statsutilssurvcompsurvivalGSVA

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Benjamin Haibe-Kains

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Benjamin Haibe-Kains

Author, Maintainer

Gangesh Beri

Author

Seyed Ali Madani Tonekaboni

Author

Janosch Ortmann

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2018-12-18
Total releases: 1 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Download size: 12 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("SIGN")

Format

Haibe-Kains, B., Beri, G., Madani Tonekaboni, S. A., & Ortmann, J. (2018). SIGN: Similarity Identification in Gene Expression (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.SIGN

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.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SIGN version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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