Biobase is an R/Bioconductor package that implements base functions for Bioconductor.

See https://bioconductor.org/packages/Biobase for more information including how to install the release version of the package (please refrain from installing directly from GitHub).

Note of the current repository: this repository is a clone of https://github.com/crhisto/Biobase. It contains some modifications related to compatibility with sparse matrices using: dgCMatrix objects in R. This has been done as part of the project: https://github.com/crhisto/thymus_NPM-ALK_notebook.

If you want to install the Biobase library with sparse support you can use:

if("Biobase" %in% rownames(installed.packages())){
  library(Biobase)
}else{
  devtools::install_github( repo = "crhisto/Biobase")
  library(Biobase)
}