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Rcwl

An R interface to the Common Workflow Language

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.29.0

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3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release)

The Common Workflow Language (CWL) is an open standard for development of data analysis workflows that is portable and scalable across different tools and working environments. Rcwl provides a simple way to wrap command line tools and build CWL data analysis pipelines programmatically within R. It increases the ease of usage, development, and maintenance of CWL pipelines.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.Rcwl

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("Rcwl")

Details

MaintainerQiang Hu <qiang.hu@roswellpark.org>
AuthorQiang Hu [aut, cre], Qian Liu [aut]
LicenseGPL-2 | file LICENSE
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsImmunoOncology, Software, WorkflowStep
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rcwl/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("Rcwl"):

Qiang Hu, Qian Liu. Rcwl: An R interface to the Common Workflow Language. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.Rcwl, R package version 1.29.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rcwl.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Documentation

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packageRcwl_1.29.0.tar.gz
macOS binary (arm64)Rcwl_1.29.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)Rcwl_1.29.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 3.6), yaml, methods, S4Vectors

Imports: utils, stats, BiocParallel, batchtools, DiagrammeR, shiny, R.utils, codetools, basilisk

Suggests: testthat, knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle

Reverse dependencies

Depends On Me (1): RcwlPipelines

Imports Me (1): ReUseData