BiasCorrector

0.2.3

A GUI to Correct Measurement Bias in DNA Methylation Analyses

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Overview

About

Maintained by Lorenz A. KapsnerFirst published 2020-08-248 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A GUI to correct measurement bias in DNA methylation analyses. The 'BiasCorrector' package just wraps the functions implemented in the 'R' package 'rBiasCorrection' into a shiny web application in order to make them more easily accessible. Publication: Kapsner et al. (2021) doi:10.1002/ijc.33681.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("BiasCorrector", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("kapsner/BiasCorrector")

Development version from kapsner/BiasCorrector. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-biascorrector

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-BiasCorrector

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ kapsner/biascorrector

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Dependencies

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9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 2.10

Imports (7)

data.table DT magrittr rBiasCorrection shiny shinydashboard shinyjs

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People & History

People (2)

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Lorenz A. Kapsner

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Authors (2)

Lorenz A. Kapsner

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Evgeny A. Moskalev

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Lorenz A. Kapsner

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

8 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-03-29 · diff ↗
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0.1.2
2020-09-22 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-09-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-08-26
requires archived package 'rBiasCorrection'
0.1.1
2020-08-24

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-08-24
Total releases: 8 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 36 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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