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IRanges

This is the development version of IRanges; for the stable release version, see IRanges.

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Foundation of integer range manipulation in Bioconductor


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Provides efficient low-level and highly reusable S4 classes for storing, manipulating and aggregating over annotated ranges of integers. Implements an algebra of range operations, including efficient algorithms for finding overlaps and nearest neighbors. Defines efficient list-like classes for storing, transforming and aggregating large grouped data, i.e., collections of atomic vectors and DataFrames.

Author: Hervé Pagès [aut, cre], Patrick Aboyoun [aut], Michael Lawrence [aut]

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

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

Hervé Pagès, Patrick Aboyoun, Michael Lawrence. IRanges: Foundation of integer range manipulation in Bioconductor. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.IRanges, R package version 2.47.5, https://bioconductor.org/packages/IRanges.

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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("IRanges")

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("IRanges")
An Overview of the IRanges package PDF R Script
Reference ManualPDF
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Details

biocViews DataRepresentation, Infrastructure, Software
Version2.47.5
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 2.3 (R-2.8) (18 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 4.0.0), methods, utils, stats, BiocGenerics (>= 0.59.5), S4Vectors (>= 0.51.8)
Imports stats4
System Requirements
URLhttps://bioconductor.org/packages/IRanges
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/Bioconductor/IRanges/issues
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Suggests XVector, GenomicRanges, Rsamtools, GenomicAlignments, GenomicFeatures, BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2, pasillaBamSubset, RUnit, BiocStyle
Linking To S4Vectors
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