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gdsfmt

This is the released version of gdsfmt; for the devel version, see gdsfmt.

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19, 3.18, 3.17, 3.16, 3.15, 3.14, 3.13, 3.12, 3.11, 3.10, 3.9, 3.8, 3.7, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0

R Interface to CoreArray Genomic Data Structure (GDS) Files


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

Provides a high-level R interface to CoreArray Genomic Data Structure (GDS) data files. GDS is portable across platforms with hierarchical structure to store multiple scalable array-oriented data sets with metadata information. It is suited for large-scale datasets, especially for data which are much larger than the available random-access memory. The gdsfmt package offers the efficient operations specifically designed for integers of less than 8 bits, since a diploid genotype, like single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), usually occupies fewer bits than a byte. Data compression and decompression are available with relatively efficient random access. It is also allowed to read a GDS file in parallel with multiple R processes supported by the package parallel.

Author: Xiuwen Zheng [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-1390-0708 , Stephanie Gogarten [ctb], Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler [ctb] (for the included zlib sources), Yann Collet [ctb] (for the included LZ4 sources), xz contributors [ctb] (for the included liblzma sources)

Maintainer: Xiuwen Zheng <zhengx at u.washington.edu>

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

Xiuwen Zheng. gdsfmt: R Interface to CoreArray Genomic Data Structure (GDS) Files. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.gdsfmt, R package version 1.48.2, https://bioconductor.org/packages/gdsfmt.

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")

BiocManager::install("gdsfmt")

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("gdsfmt")
Introduction to GDS Format HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews DataImport, Infrastructure, Software
Version1.48.2
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.0 (R-3.1) (12 years)
License LGPL-3
Depends R (>= 2.15.0), methods
Imports
System Requirements
URLhttps://github.com/zhengxwen/gdsfmt
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/zhengxwen/gdsfmt/issues
See More
Suggests parallel, digest, Matrix, crayon, RUnit, knitr, markdown, rmarkdown, BiocGenerics
Linking To
Enhances
Depends On Me bigmelon, GDSArray, RAIDS, SAIGEgds, SCArray, SeqArray, SNPRelate
Imports Me CNVRanger, CoxMK, EthSEQ, GBScleanR, GENESIS, ggmanh, GWASTools, gwid, SCArray.sat, SeqSQC, SeqVarTools, simplePHENOTYPES, snplinkage, VariantExperiment
Suggests Me AnnotationHub, HIBAG
Links To Me SeqArray, SNPRelate
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Package Archives

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

Source Package gdsfmt_1.48.2.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) gdsfmt_1.48.2.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) gdsfmt_1.48.2.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) gdsfmt_1.48.2.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/gdsfmt
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/gdsfmt
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/gdsfmt/
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