gdscloud
This is the development version of gdscloud; to use it, please install the devel version of Bioconductor.
Cloud Storage Access for GDS Files
Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 0.99.5
Provides read-only access to GDS (Genomic Data Structure) files stored on cloud storage services including Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), and Azure Blob Storage, as well as any HTTP/HTTPS URL. It extends the 'gdsfmt' package so that cloud URLs (http://, https://, s3://, gs://, az://) can be opened transparently, without downloading the whole file first. Only the blocks that are actually read are fetched, using HTTP Range requests via libcurl together with an in-memory least-recently-used block cache, so that random access to a remote GDS file behaves like access to a local one. Credentials are resolved from the usual environment variables of each service, or set per session and per URL prefix, and they can be exported to the workers of a parallel cluster.
Author: Xiuwen Zheng [aut, cre] 
Maintainer: Xiuwen Zheng <zhengx at u.washington.edu>
Citation
From within R, enter citation("gdscloud"):
Xiuwen Zheng. gdscloud: Cloud Storage Access for GDS Files. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.gdscloud, R package version 0.99.5, https://bioconductor.org/packages/gdscloud.
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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("gdscloud")For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.
Details
| Version | 0.99.5 |
| License | LGPL-3 |
| URL | https://github.com/zhengxwen/gdscloud |
| Bug Reports | https://github.com/zhengxwen/gdscloud/issues |
| System Requirements | libcurl (>= 7.28.0; >= 7.32.0 recommended), OpenSSL |
| Last updated | 2026-09-17 |
| In Bioconductor since | BioC 3.24 (R-4.6) |
| Downloads rank | 2444 of 2,456 |
| Source branch | devel |
| Build report | Bioconductor build system, r-universe |
| biocViews | DataImport, Infrastructure, Software |
| Package Short Url | https://bioconductor.org/packages/gdscloud/ |
Documentation
To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:
browseVignettes("gdscloud")| Cloud Storage Access for GDS Files | HTML | R Script |
| Reference Manual | ||
| NEWS | Text |
Download
Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.
| Source package | gdscloud_0.99.5.tar.gz |
| Windows binary (x86_64) | gdscloud_0.99.5.zip |
| macOS binary (arm64) | gdscloud_0.99.5.tgz |
| macOS binary (x86_64) | gdscloud_0.99.5.tgz |
| Source Repository | git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/gdscloud |
| Source Repository (Developer Access) | git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/gdscloud |
| Package Downloads Report | Download Stats |