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Biobase 2.73.1  (landing page)
Bioconductor Package Maintainer
Snapshot Date: 2026-05-05 13:45 -0400 (Tue, 05 May 2026)
git_url: https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/Biobase
git_branch: devel
git_last_commit: c1f775a
git_last_commit_date: 2026-04-28 18:51:49 -0400 (Tue, 28 Apr 2026)
nebbiolo2Linux (Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS) / x86_64  OK    OK    OK  UNNEEDED, same version is already published
taishanLinux (openEuler 24.03 LTS) / aarch64  OK    OK    OK  
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CHECK results for Biobase on taishan

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raw results


Summary

Package: Biobase
Version: 2.73.1
Command: /home/biocbuild/R/R/bin/R CMD check --install=check:Biobase.install-out.txt --library=/home/biocbuild/R/R/site-library --no-vignettes --timings Biobase_2.73.1.tar.gz
StartedAt: 2026-05-05 07:29:48 -0000 (Tue, 05 May 2026)
EndedAt: 2026-05-05 07:31:29 -0000 (Tue, 05 May 2026)
EllapsedTime: 101.1 seconds
RetCode: 0
Status:   OK  
CheckDir: Biobase.Rcheck
Warnings: 0

Command output

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### Running command:
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###   /home/biocbuild/R/R/bin/R CMD check --install=check:Biobase.install-out.txt --library=/home/biocbuild/R/R/site-library --no-vignettes --timings Biobase_2.73.1.tar.gz
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* using log directory ‘/home/biocbuild/bbs-3.24-bioc/meat/Biobase.Rcheck’
* using R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11)
* using platform: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
* R was compiled by
    aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 14.2.0
    GNU Fortran (GCC) 14.2.0
* running under: openEuler 24.03 (LTS)
* using session charset: UTF-8
* using option ‘--no-vignettes’
* checking for file ‘Biobase/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
* this is package ‘Biobase’ version ‘2.73.1’
* checking package namespace information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking if there is a namespace ... OK
* checking for hidden files and directories ... OK
* checking for portable file names ... OK
* checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
* checking whether package ‘Biobase’ can be installed ... OK
* used C compiler: ‘aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 14.2.0’
* checking installed package size ... OK
* checking package directory ... OK
* checking ‘build’ directory ... OK
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking top-level files ... OK
* checking for left-over files ... OK
* checking index information ... OK
* checking package subdirectories ... OK
* checking code files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
* checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
* checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
* checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
* checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
* checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
* checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
* checking loading without being on the library search path ... OK
* checking whether startup messages can be suppressed ... OK
* checking dependencies in R code ... OK
* checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
* checking replacement functions ... OK
* checking foreign function calls ... OK
* checking R code for possible problems ... OK
* checking Rd files ... OK
* checking Rd metadata ... OK
* checking Rd cross-references ... NOTE
Found the following Rd file(s) with Rd \link{} targets missing package
anchors:
  class.AnnotatedDataFrame.Rd: updateObject
  class.ExpressionSet.Rd: updateObject
  class.MIAME.Rd: updateObject
  class.MultiSet.Rd: updateObject
  class.NChannelSet.Rd: updateObject
  class.SnpSet.Rd: updateObject
  class.eSet.Rd: updateObject
Please provide package anchors for all Rd \link{} targets not in the
package itself and the base packages.
* checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
* checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
* checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
* checking Rd contents ... OK
* checking for unstated dependencies in examples ... OK
* checking contents of ‘data’ directory ... OK
* checking data for non-ASCII characters ... OK
* checking data for ASCII and uncompressed saves ... OK
* checking line endings in C/C++/Fortran sources/headers ... OK
* checking compiled code ... NOTE
Note: information on .o files is not available
* checking files in ‘vignettes’ ... OK
* checking examples ... OK
* checking for unstated dependencies in ‘tests’ ... OK
* checking tests ...
  Running ‘test-all.R’
  Running ‘test-rowMedians.R’
 OK
* checking for unstated dependencies in vignettes ... OK
* checking package vignettes ... OK
* checking running R code from vignettes ... SKIPPED
* checking re-building of vignette outputs ... SKIPPED
* checking PDF version of manual ... OK
* DONE

Status: 2 NOTEs
See
  ‘/home/biocbuild/bbs-3.24-bioc/meat/Biobase.Rcheck/00check.log’
for details.


Installation output

Biobase.Rcheck/00install.out

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### Running command:
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###   /home/biocbuild/R/R/bin/R CMD INSTALL Biobase
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* installing to library ‘/home/biocbuild/R/R-4.5.0/site-library’
* installing *source* package ‘Biobase’ ...
** this is package ‘Biobase’ version ‘2.73.1’
** using staged installation
** libs
using C compiler: ‘aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 14.2.0’
/opt/ohpc/pub/compiler/gcc/14.2.0/bin/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu23 -I"/home/biocbuild/R/R-4.5.0/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/include    -fPIC  -g -O2  -Wall -Werror=format-security -c Rinit.c -o Rinit.o
/opt/ohpc/pub/compiler/gcc/14.2.0/bin/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu23 -I"/home/biocbuild/R/R-4.5.0/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/include    -fPIC  -g -O2  -Wall -Werror=format-security -c envir.c -o envir.o
/opt/ohpc/pub/compiler/gcc/14.2.0/bin/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu23 -I"/home/biocbuild/R/R-4.5.0/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/include    -fPIC  -g -O2  -Wall -Werror=format-security -c matchpt.c -o matchpt.o
/opt/ohpc/pub/compiler/gcc/14.2.0/bin/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu23 -I"/home/biocbuild/R/R-4.5.0/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/include    -fPIC  -g -O2  -Wall -Werror=format-security -c rowMedians.c -o rowMedians.o
/opt/ohpc/pub/compiler/gcc/14.2.0/bin/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu23 -I"/home/biocbuild/R/R-4.5.0/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/include    -fPIC  -g -O2  -Wall -Werror=format-security -c sublist_extract.c -o sublist_extract.o
/opt/ohpc/pub/compiler/gcc/14.2.0/bin/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu23 -shared -L/home/biocbuild/R/R-4.5.0/lib -L/usr/local/lib -o Biobase.so Rinit.o envir.o matchpt.o rowMedians.o sublist_extract.o -L/home/biocbuild/R/R-4.5.0/lib -lR
installing to /home/biocbuild/R/R-4.5.0/site-library/00LOCK-Biobase/00new/Biobase/libs
** R
** data
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** checking absolute paths in shared objects and dynamic libraries
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (Biobase)

Tests output

Biobase.Rcheck/tests/test-all.Rout


R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11) -- "How About a Twenty-Six"
Copyright (C) 2025 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> BiocGenerics:::testPackage("Biobase")

Attaching package: 'generics'

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    as.difftime, as.factor, as.ordered, intersect, is.element, setdiff,
    setequal, union


Attaching package: 'BiocGenerics'

The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    IQR, mad, sd, var, xtabs

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    Filter, Find, Map, Position, Reduce, anyDuplicated, aperm, append,
    as.data.frame, basename, cbind, colnames, dirname, do.call,
    duplicated, eval, evalq, get, grep, grepl, is.unsorted, lapply,
    mapply, match, mget, order, paste, pmax, pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int,
    rank, rbind, rownames, sapply, saveRDS, table, tapply, unique,
    unsplit, which.max, which.min

Welcome to Bioconductor

    Vignettes contain introductory material; view with
    'browseVignettes()'. To cite Bioconductor, see
    'citation("Biobase")', and for packages 'citation("pkgname")'.



RUNIT TEST PROTOCOL -- Tue May  5 07:30:59 2026 
*********************************************** 
Number of test functions: 101 
Number of errors: 0 
Number of failures: 0 

 
1 Test Suite : 
Biobase RUnit Tests - 101 test functions, 0 errors, 0 failures
Number of test functions: 101 
Number of errors: 0 
Number of failures: 0 
Warning message:
In environment(FUN) <- e1 :
  setting environment(<primitive function>) is not possible and trying it is deprecated
> 
> proc.time()
   user  system elapsed 
 14.477   0.116  14.656 

Biobase.Rcheck/tests/test-rowMedians.Rout


R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11) -- "How About a Twenty-Six"
Copyright (C) 2025 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> library(Biobase)
Loading required package: BiocGenerics
Loading required package: generics

Attaching package: 'generics'

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    as.difftime, as.factor, as.ordered, intersect, is.element, setdiff,
    setequal, union


Attaching package: 'BiocGenerics'

The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    IQR, mad, sd, var, xtabs

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    Filter, Find, Map, Position, Reduce, anyDuplicated, aperm, append,
    as.data.frame, basename, cbind, colnames, dirname, do.call,
    duplicated, eval, evalq, get, grep, grepl, is.unsorted, lapply,
    mapply, match, mget, order, paste, pmax, pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int,
    rank, rbind, rownames, sapply, saveRDS, table, tapply, unique,
    unsplit, which.max, which.min

Welcome to Bioconductor

    Vignettes contain introductory material; view with
    'browseVignettes()'. To cite Bioconductor, see
    'citation("Biobase")', and for packages 'citation("pkgname")'.

> set.seed(1)
> 
> # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> # Consistency checks
> # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 
> # rowMedians() by rowQ()
> rowMedians2 <- function(imat) {
+   nr <- ncol(imat)
+   half <- (nr + 1)/2
+   if (nr%%2 == 1) {
+     return(rowQ(imat, half))
+   } else {
+     return((rowQ(imat, half) + rowQ(imat, half+1))/2)
+   }
+ }
> 
> cat("Consistency checks:\n")
Consistency checks:
> set.seed(1)
> for (kk in 1:20) {
+   cat("Random test #", kk, "\n", sep="")
+ 
+   # Simulate data in a matrix of any shape
+   nrow <- sample(2000, size=1)
+   ncol <- sample(2000, size=1)
+   x <- rnorm(nrow*ncol)
+   dim(x) <- c(nrow, ncol)
+ 
+   # Add NAs?
+   nas <- sample(c(TRUE,FALSE), size=1)
+   if (nas) {
+     nna <- sample(nrow*ncol, size=1)
+     x[sample(length(x), size=nna)] <- NA
+   }
+ 
+   na.rm <- nas
+   t1 <- system.time({
+     y1 <- rowMedians(x, na.rm=na.rm)
+   })
+   t2 <- system.time({
+     y2 <- apply(x, MARGIN=1, FUN=median, na.rm=na.rm)
+   })
+   # When all values of 'y2' are NA, 'y2' is logical
+   if (is.logical(y2)) y2 <- as.double(y2)
+   stopifnot(all.equal(y1,y2))
+   cat(sprintf("rowMedians()/apply(): %.3g\n", (t1/t2)[3]))
+ 
+   if (!nas) {
+     t3 <- system.time({
+       y3 <- rowMedians2(x)
+     })
+     stopifnot(all.equal(y1,y3))
+     cat(sprintf("rowMedians()/rowMedians2(): %.3g\n", (t1/t3)[3]))
+   }
+ }
Random test #1
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.372
Random test #2
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.114
rowMedians()/rowMedians2(): 0.35
Random test #3
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.0476
Random test #4
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.202
rowMedians()/rowMedians2(): 0.333
Random test #5
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.356
rowMedians()/rowMedians2(): 0.446
Random test #6
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.27
rowMedians()/rowMedians2(): 0.386
Random test #7
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.385
Random test #8
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.0123
rowMedians()/rowMedians2(): 1
Random test #9
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.182
Random test #10
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.0556
Random test #11
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.148
Random test #12
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.0893
Random test #13
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.19
rowMedians()/rowMedians2(): 0.667
Random test #14
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.232
Random test #15
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.152
Random test #16
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.115
rowMedians()/rowMedians2(): 0.333
Random test #17
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.185
Random test #18
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.0965
rowMedians()/rowMedians2(): 0.647
Random test #19
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.409
rowMedians()/rowMedians2(): 0.852
Random test #20
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.263
rowMedians()/rowMedians2(): 0.395
> 
> 
> # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> # Benchmarking
> # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> cat("Benchmarking:\n")
Benchmarking:
> 
> # Simulate data in a matrix of any shape
> nrow <- 1000
> ncol <- 1000
> x <- rnorm(nrow*ncol)
> dim(x) <- c(nrow, ncol)
> 
> gc()
          used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb)
Ncells  603419 32.3    1211038 64.7  1089544 58.2
Vcells 2106117 16.1   12255594 93.6 12343171 94.2
> t0 <- system.time({
+   for (rr in 1:20)
+     y0 <- apply(x, MARGIN=1, FUN=median, na.rm=FALSE)
+ })
> gc()
          used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb)
Ncells  603435 32.3    1211038 64.7  1211038 64.7
Vcells 2107134 16.1   12255594 93.6 12343171 94.2
> t1 <- system.time({
+   for (rr in 1:20)
+     y1 <- rowMedians(x, na.rm=FALSE)
+ })
> gc()
          used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb)
Ncells  603435 32.3    1211038 64.7  1211038 64.7
Vcells 2106259 16.1   12255594 93.6 12343171 94.2
> stopifnot(all.equal(y0,y1))
> cat(sprintf("rowMedians()/apply(): %.3g\n", (t1/t0)[3]))
rowMedians()/apply(): 0.182
> 
> 
> # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> # Consistency checks
> # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> cat("Consistency checks without NAs:\n")
Consistency checks without NAs:
> for (kk in 1:20) {
+   cat("Random test #", kk, "\n", sep="")
+ 
+   # Simulate data in a matrix of any shape
+   nrow <- sample(1000, size=1)
+   ncol <- sample(1000, size=1)
+   x <- rnorm(nrow*ncol)
+   dim(x) <- c(nrow, ncol)
+ 
+   t0 <- system.time({
+     y0 <- apply(x, MARGIN=1, FUN=median, na.rm=FALSE)
+   })
+   t1 <- system.time({
+     y1 <- rowMedians(x, na.rm=FALSE)
+   })
+   stopifnot(all.equal(y0,y1))
+ } # for (kk in ...)
Random test #1
Random test #2
Random test #3
Random test #4
Random test #5
Random test #6
Random test #7
Random test #8
Random test #9
Random test #10
Random test #11
Random test #12
Random test #13
Random test #14
Random test #15
Random test #16
Random test #17
Random test #18
Random test #19
Random test #20
> 
> 
> 
> cat("Consistency checks with NAs:\n")
Consistency checks with NAs:
> for (kk in 1:20) {
+   cat("Random test #", kk, "\n", sep="")
+ 
+   # Simulate data in a matrix of any shape
+   nrow <- sample(1000, size=1)
+   ncol <- sample(1000, size=1)
+   x <- rnorm(nrow*ncol)
+   dim(x) <- c(nrow, ncol)
+ 
+   # Add NAs
+   nna <- sample(nrow*ncol-1, size=1)
+   x[sample(length(x), size=nna)] <- NA
+ 
+   t0 <- system.time({
+     y0 <- apply(x, MARGIN=1, FUN=median, na.rm=TRUE)
+     y0[is.na(y0)] <- NA
+   })
+   t1 <- system.time({
+     y1 <- rowMedians(x, na.rm=TRUE)
+   })
+   stopifnot(all.equal(y0,y1))
+ } # for (kk in ...)
Random test #1
Random test #2
Random test #3
Random test #4
Random test #5
Random test #6
Random test #7
Random test #8
Random test #9
Random test #10
Random test #11
Random test #12
Random test #13
Random test #14
Random test #15
Random test #16
Random test #17
Random test #18
Random test #19
Random test #20
> 
> proc.time()
   user  system elapsed 
 19.872   0.373  20.326 

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