In preparation for the upcoming R workshop at the EBI, I’ve been cleaning up the rcdk package and updating some features. One of the new features is the ability to get a 2D depiction as a raster image. Uptil now, 2D depictions were drawn in a Swing window – this allowed you to resize the […]
rcdk On GitHub
I’ve been working on the rcdk and rcdklibs R packages that integrate the CDK into the R environment. For the past year or two it’s been hosted on r-forge.r-project.org which has a nice feature of nightly builds of R packages. Unfortunately their version control system is Subversion. Having used Git for my other projects, this was […]
Cheminformatics and R at the EBI
Finally all the paper work is in place for me to visit the EBI in May to run a hands-on workshop on doing cheminformatics in R. This is part of a two day program. On May 17th I will be discussing the use of the rcdk and rpubchem packages, considering a variety of use cases […]
New Version of rpubchem
Version 1.4.3 of rpubchem is out on CRAN. There’s some minor code cleanups and also a new function called get.aid.by.cid which allows you to get assay ID’s based on whether they contain a compound (either as an active, inactive, discrepant or just tested). This uses PUG to perform the query, so can be a bit […]
Updated Versions of R Packages
New versions of several of my R packages are now available on CRAN. rcdk 2.9.6 goes along with rcdklibs 1.2.3. The latter now uses the most recent cdk-1.2.x branch from Github. The former fixes a number of bugs relating to descriptor calculations, saving molecules in SD format and setting/getting properties on molecules. Unfortunately, because the […]