convertid

0.3.4

Convert Gene IDs Between Each Other and Fetch Annotations from Biomart

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Overview

About

Maintained by Vidal FeyFirst published 2021-08-2113 releasesCRAN page ↗

Gene Symbols or Ensembl Gene IDs are converted using the Bimap interface in 'AnnotationDbi' in convertId2() for the most common use cases in data analysis. The main function in the package is convert.bm() which queries BioMart using the full capacity of the API provided through the 'biomaRt' package. Presets and defaults are provided for convenience but all "marts", "filters" and "attributes" can be set by the user. Function convert.alias() converts Gene Symbols to Aliases and vice versa and function likely_symbol() attempts to determine the most likely current Gene Symbol.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)

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

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

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-convertid

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.59

not tracked

Coverage

100%

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 8%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0AnnotationDbi

Imports (11)

plyr stringr biomaRtstatsxml2utilsrappdirs assertthatmethodshttr BiocFileCache

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

BiocManager org.Hs.eg.db org.Mm.eg.db testthat mockery

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

coreheat

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Vidal Fey

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Vidal Fey

Author, Maintainer

Henrik Edgren

Author

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-08-21
Total releases: 13 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 16 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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