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escheR

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

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Unified multi-dimensional visualizations with Gestalt principles


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

The creation of effective visualizations is a fundamental component of data analysis. In biomedical research, new challenges are emerging to visualize multi-dimensional data in a 2D space, but current data visualization tools have limited capabilities. To address this problem, we leverage Gestalt principles to improve the design and interpretability of multi-dimensional data in 2D data visualizations, layering aesthetics to display multiple variables. The proposed visualization can be applied to spatially-resolved transcriptomics data, but also broadly to data visualized in 2D space, such as embedding visualizations. We provide this open source R package escheR, which is built off of the state-of-the-art ggplot2 visualization framework and can be seamlessly integrated into genomics toolboxes and workflows.

Author: Boyi Guo [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-2950-2349 , Stephanie C. Hicks [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-7858-0231 , Erik D. Nelson [ctb] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0001-8477-0982

Maintainer: Boyi Guo <boyi.guo.work at gmail.com>

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

Boyi Guo, Stephanie C. Hicks. escheR: Unified multi-dimensional visualizations with Gestalt principles. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.escheR, R package version 1.13.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/escheR.

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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("escheR")

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("escheR")
beyond_visium HTML R Script
Getting Start with `escheR` HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText
LICENSEText

Details

biocViews SingleCell, Software, Spatial, Transcriptomics, Visualization
Version1.13.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.17 (R-4.3) (3.5 years)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends ggplot2, R (>= 4.3)
Imports SpatialExperiment (>= 1.6.1), SingleCellExperiment, rlang, SummarizedExperiment
System Requirements
URLhttps://github.com/boyiguo1/escheR
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/boyiguo1/escheR/issues
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Suggests STexampleData, BumpyMatrix, knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, ggpubr, scran, scater, scuttle, Seurat, hexbin
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Source Package escheR_1.13.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) escheR_1.13.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) escheR_1.13.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) escheR_1.13.0.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/escheR
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/escheR
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/escheR/
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