DuckDBArray
This is the development version of DuckDBArray; to use it, please install the devel version of Bioconductor.
DuckDB-Backed DelayedArray Implementation
Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 0.99.10
Provides DuckDB-backed implementations of DelayedArray and DelayedMatrix classes for efficient, out-of-memory operations on large array and matrix datasets. The package includes DuckDBArray, DuckDBArraySeed, and DuckDBMatrix classes with optimized matrixStats methods. Supports sparse arrays, grid partitioning, and parallel processing for scalable genomic data analysis.
Author: Patrick Aboyoun [aut, cre], Genentech, Inc. [cph]
Maintainer: Patrick Aboyoun <aboyounp at gene.com>
Citation
From within R, enter citation("DuckDBArray"):
Patrick Aboyoun. DuckDBArray: DuckDB-Backed DelayedArray Implementation. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.DuckDBArray, R package version 0.99.10, https://bioconductor.org/packages/DuckDBArray.
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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("DuckDBArray")For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.
Details
| Version | 0.99.10 |
| License | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL | https://github.com/Genentech/DuckDBArray |
| Bug Reports | https://github.com/Genentech/DuckDBArray/issues |
| Last updated | 2026-09-30 |
| In Bioconductor since | BioC 3.24 (R-4.6) |
| Downloads rank | 2423 of 2,456 |
| Source branch | devel |
| Build report | Bioconductor build system, r-universe |
| biocViews | DataImport, DataRepresentation, Infrastructure, Software |
| Package Short Url | https://bioconductor.org/packages/DuckDBArray/ |
Documentation
To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:
browseVignettes("DuckDBArray")| Introduction to DuckDBArray | HTML | R Script |
| Benchmarking DuckDBArray | HTML | R Script |
| Implementing the DuckDBArray backend | HTML | R Script |
| Reference Manual | ||
| NEWS | Text |
Download
Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.
| Source package | DuckDBArray_0.99.10.tar.gz |
| Windows binary (x86_64) | DuckDBArray_0.99.10.zip |
| macOS binary (arm64) | DuckDBArray_0.99.10.tgz |
| macOS binary (x86_64) | DuckDBArray_0.99.10.tgz |
| Source Repository | git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/DuckDBArray |
| Source Repository (Developer Access) | git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/DuckDBArray |
| Package Downloads Report | Download Stats |
Dependencies
Depends: R (>= 4.5.0), methods, stats, DuckDBDataFrame, DelayedArray, SparseArray
Imports: BiocGenerics, S4Vectors, IRanges, S4Arrays, Matrix, MatrixGenerics, DBI, dplyr, dbplyr, arrow
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, testthat, matrixStats, microbenchmark, BiocParallel, DelayedMatrixStats, ExperimentHub, HDF5Array, sparseMatrixStats, SummarizedExperiment, TileDBArray, airway
Reverse dependencies
Depends On Me (1): BiocDuckDB