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DelayedArray

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

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19, 3.18, 3.17, 3.16, 3.15, 3.14, 3.13, 3.12, 3.11, 3.10, 3.9, 3.8, 3.7, 3.6, 3.5

A unified framework for working transparently with on-disk and in-memory array-like datasets


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Wrapping an array-like object (typically an on-disk object) in a DelayedArray object allows one to perform common array operations on it without loading the object in memory. In order to reduce memory usage and optimize performance, operations on the object are either delayed or executed using a block processing mechanism. Note that this also works on in-memory array-like objects like DataFrame objects (typically with Rle columns), Matrix objects, ordinary arrays and, data frames.

Author: Hervé Pagès [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0002-8272-4522 , Aaron Lun [ctb], Peter Hickey [ctb]

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

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

Hervé Pagès. DelayedArray: A unified framework for working transparently with on-disk and in-memory array-like datasets. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.DelayedArray, R package version 0.39.8, https://bioconductor.org/packages/DelayedArray.

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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("DelayedArray")

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("DelayedArray")
1. Working with large arrays in R (slides from July 2017) PDF R Script
3. A DelayedArray / HDF5Array update (slides from April 2021) PDF R Script
2. Implementing A DelayedArray Backend HTML
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews Annotation, DataRepresentation, GenomeAnnotation, Infrastructure, Software
Version0.39.8
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.5 (R-3.4) (9.5 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 4.0.0), methods, stats4, Matrix, BiocGenerics (>= 0.59.12), MatrixGenerics (>= 1.1.3), S4Vectors (>= 0.51.2), IRanges (>= 2.47.1), S4Arrays (>= 1.13.2), SparseArray (>= 1.7.5)
Imports stats
System Requirements
URLhttps://bioconductor.org/packages/DelayedArray
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/Bioconductor/DelayedArray/issues
See More
Suggests BiocParallel, HDF5Array (>= 1.17.12), ZarrArray, genefilter, SummarizedExperiment, airway, lobstr, DelayedMatrixStats, knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, RUnit
Linking To
Enhances
Depends On Me chihaya, DelayedDataFrame, DelayedMatrixStats, DelayedRandomArray, DuckDBArray, GDSArray, HDF5Array, PlinkMatrix, rhdf5client, SCArray, singleCellTK, TileDBArray, VCFArray, ZarrArray
Imports Me adverSCarial, alabaster.matrix, AUCell, batchelor, beachmat, beachmat.hdf5, beachmat.tiledb, BiocDuckDB, BiocSingular, bsseq, celaref, celldex, cellGeometry, Cepo, ChromSCape, clusterExperiment, concordexR, CRISPRseek, cytomapper, decontX, DelayedTensor, DEScan2, dreamlet, DropletUtils, DuckDBDataFrame, DuckDBGRanges, ebvcube, ELMER, EWCE, flowWorkspace, FRASER, GenomicScores, glmGamPoi, GSVA, hipathia, ImageArray, imcdatasets, LoomExperiment, Macarron, mariner, mbkmeans, methodical, methrix, methylSig, mia, miaViz, minfi, MOFA2, MuData, MultiAssayExperiment, mumosa, mutscan, NetActivity, netSmooth, NewWave, omicsGMF, orthogene, orthos, PCAtools, RBedMethyl, ResidualMatrix, rliger, RTCGAToolbox, ScaledMatrix, SCArray.sat, scater, scDblFinder, scDiffCom, scFeatures, scMerge, scmeth, scPCA, scran, scrapper, scRNAseq, scry, scuttle, signatureSearch, SingleCellAlleleExperiment, SingleCellExperiment, SingleR, sketchR, SpaNorm, spatialdataR, spatialGE, SpliceWiz, SummarizedExperiment, transformGamPoi, TSCAN, VariantExperiment, velociraptor, vmrseq, Voyager, weitrix, xcore, zellkonverter, ZygosityPredictor
Suggests Me anndataR, BiocGenerics, BiocNeighbors, cellNexus, ChIPpeakAnno, gwascat, hermes, iSEE, MAST, MatrixGenerics, methFuse, presto, ProteoDisco, S4Arrays, S4Cartographer, S4Vectors, satuRn, scone, Seurat, SeuratObject, SigBridgeRUtils, spatialHeatmap, SPOTlight, TrajectoryUtils, UCell
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Source Package DelayedArray_0.39.8.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) DelayedArray_0.39.8.zip (64-bit only)
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Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/DelayedArray
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/DelayedArray
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/DelayedArray/
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