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SpatialFeatureExperiment

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

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Integrating SpatialExperiment with Simple Features in sf


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

A new S4 class integrating Simple Features with the R package sf to bring geospatial data analysis methods based on vector data to spatial transcriptomics. Also implements management of spatial neighborhood graphs and geometric operations. This pakage builds upon SpatialExperiment and SingleCellExperiment, hence methods for these parent classes can still be used.

Author: Lambda Moses [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-7092-9427 , Alik Huseynov [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-1438-4389 , Lior Pachter [aut, ths] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-9164-6231

Maintainer: Lambda Moses <lambda.calc29 at gmail.com>

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

Lambda Moses, Alik Huseynov, Lior Pachter. SpatialFeatureExperiment: Integrating SpatialExperiment with Simple Features in sf. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.SpatialFeatureExperiment, R package version 1.15.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/SpatialFeatureExperiment.

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("SpatialFeatureExperiment")

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("SpatialFeatureExperiment")
Introduction to the SpatialFeatureExperiment class HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews DataRepresentation, Software, Spatial, Transcriptomics
Version1.15.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.16 (R-4.2) (4 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 4.3.0)
Imports Biobase, BiocGenerics (>= 0.51.2), BiocNeighbors, BiocParallel, data.table, DropletUtils, EBImage, grDevices, lifecycle, Matrix, methods, rjson, rlang, S4Vectors, sf, sfheaders, SingleCellExperiment, SpatialExperiment, spatialreg, spdep (>= 1.1-7), SummarizedExperiment, stats, terra, utils, zeallot
System Requirements
URLhttps://pachterlab.github.io/SpatialFeatureExperiment
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/pachterlab/SpatialFeatureExperiment/issues
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Suggests arrow, BiocStyle, dplyr, duckspatial, gmp, knitr, OSTA.data, RBioFormats, rhdf5, rmarkdown, scrapper, sfarrow, SFEData (>= 1.5.3), Seurat, SeuratObject, sparseMatrixStats, testthat (>= 3.0.0), tidyr, VisiumIO, Voyager (>= 1.7.2), withr, xml2
Linking To
Enhances
Depends On Me alabaster.sfe, Voyager
Imports Me TENxXeniumData
Suggests Me concordexR, imageFeatureTCGA, imageTCGAutils, jazzPanda, MultiAssaySpatialExperiment, multipointR, SFEData, xenLite
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package SpatialFeatureExperiment_1.15.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) SpatialFeatureExperiment_1.15.0.zip
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Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/SpatialFeatureExperiment
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/SpatialFeatureExperiment
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/SpatialFeatureExperiment/
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