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DuckDBDataFrame

This is the development version of DuckDBDataFrame; to use it, please install the devel version of Bioconductor.

DuckDB-Backed DataFrame and Table Structures


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Provides DuckDB-backed implementations of core tabular data structures including DuckDBTable, DuckDBDataFrame, and DuckDBColumn. These classes extend Bioconductor's S4Vectors framework to enable efficient, out-of-memory operations on large tabular datasets using DuckDB's analytical database engine. The package includes SQL function discovery, connection management, and support for list columns and embeddings stored in ARRAY[] columns.

Author: Patrick Aboyoun [aut, cre], Genentech, Inc. [cph]

Maintainer: Patrick Aboyoun <aboyounp at gene.com>

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

Patrick Aboyoun. DuckDBDataFrame: DuckDB-Backed DataFrame and Table Structures. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.DuckDBDataFrame, R package version 0.99.27, https://bioconductor.org/packages/DuckDBDataFrame.

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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("DuckDBDataFrame")

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("DuckDBDataFrame")
2. Design and extension of DuckDBDataFrame HTML R Script
1. Introduction to DuckDBDataFrame HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText
LICENSEText

Details

biocViews DataImport, DataRepresentation, Infrastructure, Software
Version0.99.27
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.24 (R-4.6)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.5.0), methods, stats, bit64, S4Vectors, IRanges
Imports tools, BiocGenerics, S4Arrays, SparseArray, DelayedArray, Matrix, DBI, rlang, dplyr, dbplyr, duckdb, arrow, tibble
System Requirements
URLhttps://github.com/Genentech/DuckDBDataFrame
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/Genentech/DuckDBDataFrame/issues
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Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, testthat
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Depends On Me BiocDuckDB, DuckDBArray, DuckDBGRanges, DuckDBSpatial
Imports Me
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package DuckDBDataFrame_0.99.27.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) DuckDBDataFrame_0.99.27.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) DuckDBDataFrame_0.99.27.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) DuckDBDataFrame_0.99.27.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/DuckDBDataFrame
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/DuckDBDataFrame
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/DuckDBDataFrame/
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