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multipointR

This is the development version of multipointR; to use it, please install the devel version of Bioconductor.

A package to compare intensities of point patterns across samples with spatial parametric models


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

`multipointR` is a package to compare the distribution of cells in an image or cross images with point process models. On a single image level point process models (`ppm`) model the spatial distribution of a cell type point pattern as a function of spatial covariates while accounting for natural spacing of cells. The main model class considered in `multipointR` are inhomgoeneous Gibb's point process models. Across multiple images, users can either compare multiple univariate `ppm` models in a for loop or fit one joint model across all images with `mppm`. `multipointR` provides an interface between `SpatialExperiment` and `SpatialFeatureExperiment` objects and let's users flexibly define their own `ppm`/`mppm` models with R's formula interface.

Author: Martin Emons [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0000-5219-5311 , Wolfgang Huber [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-0474-2218 , Mark D. Robinson [aut, fnd] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-3048-5518

Maintainer: Martin Emons <martin.emons at uzh.ch>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("multipointR")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("multipointR")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("multipointR")
Introduction to `multipointR` HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text

Details

biocViews SingleCell, Software, Spatial, Transcriptomics
Version 0.99.5
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.24 (R-4.6)
License GPL (>= 3)
Depends R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports SummarizedExperiment, methods, SpatialExperiment, spatstat.geom, spatstat.model, spatstat.explore, formula.tools, mgcv, dplyr, ggplot2, reformulas, S4Vectors, rlang
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URL https://github.com/mjemons/multipointR
Bug Reports https://github.com/mjemons/multipointR/issues
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Suggests knitr, BiocStyle, patchwork, SpatialFeatureExperiment, rmarkdown, SpatialDatasets, sosta, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
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Source Package multipointR_0.99.5.tar.gz
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Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/multipointR
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