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XVector

This is the released version of XVector; for the devel version, see XVector.

Foundation of external vector representation and manipulation in Bioconductor


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

Provides memory efficient S4 classes for storing sequences "externally" (e.g. behind an R external pointer, or on disk).

Author: Hervé Pagès and Patrick Aboyoun

Maintainer: Hervé Pagès <hpages.on.github at gmail.com>

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

BiocManager::install("XVector")

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

Documentation

Reference Manual PDF

Details

biocViews DataRepresentation, Infrastructure, Software
Version 0.52.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 2.13 (R-3.0) (13 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 4.0.0), methods, BiocGenerics(>= 0.37.0), S4Vectors(>= 0.27.12), IRanges(>= 2.43.8)
Imports methods, utils, stats, tools, BiocGenerics, S4Vectors, IRanges
System Requirements
URL https://bioconductor.org/packages/XVector
Bug Reports https://github.com/Bioconductor/XVector/issues
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Suggests Biostrings, drosophila2probe, RUnit
Linking To S4Vectors, IRanges
Enhances
Depends On Me Biostrings, triplex
Imports Me Bioc.gff, BSgenome, ChIPsim, CNEr, compEpiTools, crisprScore, dada2, DECIPHER, gcrma, GenomAutomorphism, GenomicFeatures, Gviz, HiLDA, IONiseR, IsoformSwitchAnalyzeR, kebabs, MatrixRider, Modstrings, monaLisa, ProteoDisco, R453Plus1Toolbox, ribosomeProfilingQC, Rsamtools, rtracklayer, SparseArray, Structstrings, TFBSTools, tracktables, tRNA, tRNAscanImport, VariantAnnotation, MiscMetabar
Suggests Me CNVMetrics, fastRanges, IRanges, IWTomics, LOLA, musicatk, inDAGO
Links To Me Bioc.gff, Biostrings, CNEr, DECIPHER, kebabs, MatrixRider, posDemux, pwalign, Rsamtools, rtracklayer, ShortRead, SparseArray, triplex, VariantAnnotation, VariantFiltering
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package XVector_0.52.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) XVector_0.52.0.zip (64-bit only)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) XVector_0.52.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) XVector_0.52.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/XVector
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/XVector
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/XVector/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/XVector/
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