S4Cartographer
This is the development version of S4Cartographer; to use it, please install the devel version of Bioconductor.
Visualize S4 class inheritance across R/Bioconductor packages
Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 0.99.3
S4 Object-Oriented Programming is fundamental to the Bioconductor ecosystem, enabling modularity and code reuse across hundreds of packages. However, the multi-layered inheritance structures within and between packages can be difficult to navigate. S4Cartographer facilitates the exploration of these relationships by visualizing S4 class hierarchies as directed graphs. By representing classes as nodes and inheritance as edges, it provides a clear overview of complex dependency networks.
Author: Malte Thodberg [cre, aut] 
Maintainer: Malte Thodberg <maltethodberg at gmail.com>
Citation
From within R, enter citation("S4Cartographer"):
Malte Thodberg. S4Cartographer: Visualize S4 class inheritance across R/Bioconductor packages. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.S4Cartographer, R package version 0.99.3, https://bioconductor.org/packages/S4Cartographer.
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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("S4Cartographer")For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.
Details
| Version | 0.99.3 |
| License | GPL (>= 3) |
| URL | https://github.com/MalteThodberg/S4Cartographer |
| Bug Reports | https://github.com/MalteThodberg/S4Cartographer/issues |
| Last updated | 2026-04-23 |
| In Bioconductor since | BioC 3.24 (R-4.6) |
| Downloads rank | 2397 of 2,456 |
| Source branch | devel |
| Build report | Bioconductor build system, r-universe |
| biocViews | GraphAndNetwork, Software, Visualization |
| Package Short Url | https://bioconductor.org/packages/S4Cartographer/ |
Documentation
To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:
browseVignettes("S4Cartographer")| The S4Cartographer R/Bioconductor package | HTML | R Script |
| Reference Manual |
Download
Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.
| Source package | S4Cartographer_0.99.3.tar.gz |
| Windows binary (x86_64) | S4Cartographer_0.99.3.zip |
| macOS binary (arm64) | S4Cartographer_0.99.3.tgz |
| macOS binary (x86_64) | S4Cartographer_0.99.3.tgz |
| Source Repository | git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/S4Cartographer |
| Source Repository (Developer Access) | git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/S4Cartographer |
| Package Downloads Report | Download Stats |
Dependencies
Depends: methods
Imports: ggraph, tidygraph, igraph, ggplot2, checkmate, ggthemes, rlang, BiocBaseUtils, utils
Suggests: BiocSingular, BiocStyle, Biostrings, clusterExperiment, DelayedArray, DESeq2, GenomicAlignments, GenomicFeatures, GenomicFiles, GenomicRanges, HDF5Array, InteractionSet, IRanges, knitr, MultiAssayExperiment, ResidualMatrix, rmarkdown, S4Vectors, ScaledMatrix, SingleCellExperiment, SpatialExperiment, SummarizedExperiment, TileDBArray, VCFArray, XVector