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Rarr

Read Zarr Files in R

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 2.0.1

The Zarr specification defines a format for chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays. It's design allows efficient access to subsets of the stored array, and supports both local and cloud storage systems. Rarr aims to implement this specification in R with minimal reliance on an external tools or libraries.

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("Rarr")

Details

MaintainerHugo Gruson <hugo.gruson@embl.de>
AuthorMike Smith [aut, ccp] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7800-3848>, Maintainer from 2022 to 2025.), Hugo Gruson [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4094-1476>), Artür Manukyan [ctb], Sharla Gelfand [ctb], German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure - de.NBI [fnd]
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
URLhttps://huber-group-embl.github.io/Rarr/, https://github.com/Huber-group-EMBL/Rarr
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/Huber-group-EMBL/Rarr/issues
System RequirementsGNU make
Downloads rank575
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)

Imports: curl, jsonlite, lifecycle, paws.storage, R.utils, utils

Suggests: BiocStyle, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0), withr, ZarrArray

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (2): ImageArray, ZarrArray

Suggests Me (1): anndataR