Package: scECODA Title: Single-Cell Exploratory Compositional Data Analysis Version: 1.1.6 Authors@R: c( person("Christian", "Halter", email = "scecoda.dev@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = '0009-0009-5479-2246')), person("Massimo", "Andreatta", email = "Massimo.Andreatta@unige.ch", role = c("aut"), comment = c(ORCID = '0000-0002-8036-2647')), person("Santiago", "Carmona", email = "Santiago.Carmona@unige.ch", role = c("aut"), comment = c(ORCID = '0000-0002-2495-0671')), person("Swiss Cancer Research Foundation", role = c("fnd")) ) Description: The scECODA R package provides a complete workflow for the analysis and visualization of compositional data, primarily focusing on cell type proportions derived from single-cell data. It implements specialized methods, such as the Centered Log-Ratio (CLR) transformation, to properly analyze proportional data while avoiding the biases introduced by the compositional constraint. The package encapsulates data management, transformation, and analysis into a single SummarizedExperiment object, offering downstream tools for dimensionality reduction via PCA, calculating critical metrics like the Adjusted Rand Index (ARI) and Modularity to quantify sample grouping quality, and generating high-quality visualizations like heatmaps and scatter plots. biocViews: Software, SingleCell, Transcriptomics, CellBasedAssays, Normalization, Preprocessing, Visualization, Clustering, DimensionReduction, FeatureExtraction, PrincipalComponent BugReports: https://github.com/carmonalab/scECODA/issues License: GPL-3 + file LICENSE Encoding: UTF-8 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE) Depends: R (>= 4.6.0) VignetteBuilder: knitr Suggests: Seurat (>= 5.0.0), igraph, knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, testthat, scRNAseq Config/testthat/edition: 3 URL: https://github.com/carmonalab/scECODA Imports: BiocGenerics, cluster, corrplot, DESeq2, dplyr, factoextra (>= 2.0.0), ggplot2, ggpubr, ggrepel, gtools, Matrix, mclust, methods, pheatmap, plotly, rlang, rstatix, S4Vectors, stringr, SummarizedExperiment (>= 1.34.0), tidyr, vegan Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0 Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake make libicu-dev libuv1-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev Repository: https://carmonalab.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-06-19 14:59:59 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/carmonalab/scECODA RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 64cdfaa183996eb76d07ecc014811be39c2a0731 NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-06-19 16:43:58 UTC; root Author: Christian Halter [aut, cre] (ORCID: ), Massimo Andreatta [aut] (ORCID: ), Santiago Carmona [aut] (ORCID: ), Swiss Cancer Research Foundation [fnd] Maintainer: Christian Halter