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biomformat

An interface package for the BIOM file format

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.40.0

This is an R package for interfacing with the BIOM file format. This package includes basic tools for reading biom-format files, accessing and subsetting data tables from a biom object (which is more complex than a single table), as well as limited support for writing a biom-object back to a biom-format file. The design of this API is intended to match the python API and other tools included with the biom-format project, but with a decidedly "R flavor" that should be familiar to R users. This includes S4 classes and methods, as well as extensions of common core functions/methods.

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("biomformat")

Details

MaintainerPaul J. McMurdie <joey711@gmail.com>
AuthorPaul J. McMurdie [aut, cre], Joseph N. Paulson [aut]
LicenseGPL-2
URLhttps://github.com/joey711/biomformat/, http://biom-format.org/
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/joey711/biomformat/issues
Downloads rank7289
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsDataImport, ImmunoOncology, Metagenomics, Microbiome, Software

Documentation

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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.1), methods

Imports: jsonlite (>= 0.9.16), Matrix (>= 1.7-0)

Suggests: testthat (>= 0.10), knitr (>= 1.10), BiocStyle (>= 1.6), rmarkdown (>= 0.7), SummarizedExperiment, S4Vectors, tibble, rhdf5

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (2): microbiomeExplorer, phyloseq

Suggests Me (8): animalcules, iSEEtree, metacoder, metagenomeSeq, MetaScope, MGnifyR, mia, MicrobiotaProcess