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savingBiocObjects

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

Saving Bioconductor Objects for Sharing


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Documentation and guidance on strategies for saving and sharing Bioconductor objects, covering RDS serialization, HDF5-backed storage, the alabaster ecosystem for cross-language interoperability, exporting genomic ranges to standard formats, and preserving object metadata.

Author: Michael Love [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0001-8401-0545

Maintainer: Michael Love <michaelisaiahlove at gmail.com>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("savingBiocObjects")):
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("savingBiocObjects")

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("savingBiocObjects")
savingBiocObjects.html HTML R Script

Details

biocViews BasicWorkflow, Workflow
Version 0.99.0
License MIT + file LICENSE
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Imports
System Requirements Quarto (https://quarto.org)
URL https://mikelove.github.io/savingBiocObjects
Bug Reports https://github.com/mikelove/savingBiocObjects/issues
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Suggests SummarizedExperiment, SingleCellExperiment, GenomicRanges, HDF5Array, anndataR, alabaster.base, alabaster.se, rtracklayer, plyranges, jsonlite, BiocManager, knitr, quarto
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package savingBiocObjects_0.99.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64)
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Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/savingBiocObjects
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/savingBiocObjects
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/savingBiocObjects/
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