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SpiecEasi

This is the released version of SpiecEasi; for the devel version, see SpiecEasi.

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release)

Sparse Inverse Covariance for Ecological Statistical Inference


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

Estimate networks from the precision matrix of compositional microbial abundance data.

Author: Zachary Kurtz [aut, cre], Christian Mueller [aut], Emily Miraldi [aut], Richard Bonneau [aut], Laura Tipton [ctb]

Maintainer: Zachary Kurtz <zdkurtz at gmail.com>

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

Zachary Kurtz, Christian Mueller, Emily Miraldi, Richard Bonneau. SpiecEasi: Sparse Inverse Covariance for Ecological Statistical Inference. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.SpiecEasi, R package version 2.0.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/SpiecEasi.

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Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:

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

BiocManager::install("SpiecEasi")

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("SpiecEasi")
Cross Domain SPIEC-EASI HTML R Script
Learning latent variable graphical models HTML R Script
Working with phyloseq HTML R Script
pulsar: parallel utilities for model selection HTML R Script
Introduction to SpiecEasi HTML R Script
Troubleshooting HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews GraphAndNetwork, Metagenomics, Microbiome, NetworkInference, Software
Version2.0.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.23 (R-4.6) (< 6 months)
License GPL (>= 3)
Depends R (>= 4.5.0)
Imports stats, methods, graphics, grDevices, huge (>= 1.3.2), pulsar (>= 0.3.11), MASS, VGAM, Matrix (>= 1.5), glmnet, phyloseq
System Requirements
URLhttps://github.com/zdk123/SpiecEasi
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/zdk123/SpiecEasi/issues
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Suggests parallel, boot, igraph, batchtools, testthat, covr, knitr, BiocStyle, rmarkdown, RefManageR, sessioninfo, magick
Linking To Rcpp, RcppArmadillo
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package SpiecEasi_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) SpiecEasi_2.0.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) SpiecEasi_2.0.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) SpiecEasi_2.0.0.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/SpiecEasi
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/SpiecEasi
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/SpiecEasi/
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