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Informeasure

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

R implementation of information measures


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

This package consolidates a comprehensive set of information measurements, encompassing mutual information, conditional mutual information, interaction information, partial information decomposition, and part mutual information.

Author: Chu Pan [aut, cre]

Maintainer: Chu Pan <chu.pan at hnu.edu.cn>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("Informeasure")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

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


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

BiocManager::install("Informeasure")

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("Informeasure")
Informeasure: a tool to quantify nonlinear dependence between variables in biological regulatory networks from an information theory perspective HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text

Details

biocViews GeneExpression, Network, NetworkInference, Software
Version 1.22.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.12 (R-4.0) (6 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 4.0)
Imports entropy
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URL https://github.com/chupan1218/Informeasure
Bug Reports https://github.com/chupan1218/Informeasure/issues
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Suggests knitr, BiocStyle, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0), SummarizedExperiment
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package Informeasure_1.22.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) Informeasure_1.22.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) Informeasure_1.22.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) Informeasure_1.22.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/Informeasure
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/Informeasure
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/Informeasure/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/Informeasure/
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