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Rarr

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

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19, 3.18, 3.17

A Simple and Performant Native R Reader & Writer for Zarr Arrays


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

The Zarr specification defines a format for chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays. Its design allows efficient access to subsets of the stored array, and supports both local and cloud storage systems. Rarr aims to implement this specification in R with minimal reliance on an external tools or libraries.

Author: Mike Smith [aut, ccp] (ORCID: ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-7800-3848 , Maintainer from 2022 to 2025.), Hugo Gruson [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-4094-1476 , Artür Manukyan [ctb], Sharla Gelfand [ctb], German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure - de.NBI [fnd] (ROR: <https://ror.org/01vmpm840>)

Maintainer: Hugo Gruson <hugo.gruson at embl.de>

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

Mike Smith, Hugo Gruson. Rarr: A Simple and Performant Native R Reader & Writer for Zarr Arrays. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.Rarr, R package version 2.1.46, https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rarr.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

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("Rarr")

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("Rarr")
Design principles for the Rarr package HTML
"Supported Zarr features in Rarr" HTML R Script
"Working with Zarr arrays in R" HTML R Script
"Working with **remote** Zarr arrays in R" HTML
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText
LICENSEText

Details

biocViews DataImport, Software
Version2.1.46
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.17 (R-4.3) (3.5 years)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.2.0)
Imports curl, grumpy, jsonlite, paws.storage, R.utils, rlang, utils
System RequirementsGNU make
URLhttps://huber-group-embl.github.io/Rarr/ https://github.com/Huber-group-EMBL/Rarr
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/Huber-group-EMBL/Rarr/issues
See More
Suggests BiocStyle, knitr, progressr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0), withr
Linking To
Enhances
Depends On Me
Imports Me ImageArray, spatialdataR, ZarrArray
Suggests Me anndataR
Links To Me
Build Report Build Report, r-universe

Package Archives

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

Source Package Rarr_2.1.46.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) Rarr_2.1.46.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) Rarr_2.1.46.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) Rarr_2.1.46.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/Rarr
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/Rarr
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rarr/
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