BiocCheck
Bioc currentBioconductor-specific package checks
Release Lineage
Entered 2.14 · Apr 14, 2014
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
BiocCheck guides maintainers through Bioconductor best practicies. It runs Bioconductor-specific package checks by searching through package code, examples, and vignettes. Maintainers are required to address all errors, warnings, and most notes produced.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
167 2 exported
Complexity
3.4 avg / 43 max
Call network
167 nodes / 303 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
6,019
Files
66
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
4
Internal functions
154
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.00
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
75%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
37.5%
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
0%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
4.4.0
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
Artistic-2.0
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
25
First release
2014-05-13
Latest release
2026-06-30
Avg cadence
184 days
Cold removal rate
100%
Dep drift
17
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 6 (3 internal)
- Examples that run
- 100%4 run in a plain check
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 100%
- Return-value docs
- 100%
- Help pages citing references
- 33%
Repository practices
4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/bioconductor/bioccheck on 2026-10-22.
The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, and on R-devel
Topics
Depended on by (3)
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Bioconductor (3)
People
- Marcel Ramos author maintainer
- Leonardo Collado-Torres contributor
- Federico Marini contributor
- Bioconductor Package Maintainer author
- Kevin Rue contributor
- Lori Shepherd author
- Daniel von Twisk contributor
Cite
Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:
citation("BiocCheck")This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.
Cite the R Observatory
For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.
From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.