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Biobase

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

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Biobase: Base functions for Bioconductor


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Functions that are needed by many other packages or which replace R functions.

Author: R. Gentleman [aut], V. Carey [aut], M. Morgan [aut], S. Falcon [aut], Haleema Khan [ctb] ('esApply' and 'BiobaseDevelopment' vignette translation from Sweave to Rmarkdown / HTML), Bioconductor Package Maintainer [cre]

Maintainer: Bioconductor Package Maintainer <maintainer at bioconductor.org>

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

R. Gentleman, V. Carey, M. Morgan, S. Falcon. Biobase: Biobase: Base functions for Bioconductor. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.Biobase, R package version 2.73.2, https://bioconductor.org/packages/Biobase.

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("Biobase")

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("Biobase")
An introduction to Biobase and ExpressionSets PDF R Script
Notes for eSet developers HTML R Script
esApply Introduction HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews Infrastructure, Software
Version2.73.2
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 1.6 (R-2.1) or earlier (> 21.5 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 2.10), BiocGenerics (>= 0.27.1), utils
Imports methods
System Requirements
URLhttps://bioconductor.org/packages/Biobase
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/Bioconductor/Biobase/issues
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Suggests tools, tkWidgets, ALL, RUnit, golubEsets, BiocStyle, knitr, limma
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Source Package Biobase_2.73.2.tar.gz
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