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HCAData

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

Accessing The Datasets Of The Human Cell Atlas in R/Bioconductor


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

This package allows a direct access to the dataset generated by the Human Cell Atlas project for further processing in R and Bioconductor, in the comfortable format of SingleCellExperiment objects (available in other formats here: http://preview.data.humancellatlas.org/).

Author: Federico Marini [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-3252-7758

Maintainer: Federico Marini <marinif at uni-mainz.de>

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

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("HCAData")
Accessing the Human Cell Atlas datasets HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text
LICENSE Text

Details

biocViews ExperimentData, ExperimentHub, ExpressionData, RNASeqData, SingleCellData
Version 1.28.0
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 3.6), SingleCellExperiment
Imports ExperimentHub, AnnotationHub, HDF5Array, utils
System Requirements
URL https://github.com/federicomarini/HCAData
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Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, scran(>= 1.11.4), BiocSingular, scater, scuttle, Rtsne, igraph, iSEE, testthat
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package HCAData_1.28.0.tar.gz
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Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/HCAData
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/HCAData
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/HCAData/
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