# NanoStringNCTools ## Overview The NanoStringNCTools package contains tools for analyzing data from NanoString nCounter Technology. It provides functions to read, quality control (QC) and normalize starting from Nanostring RCC and RLF files generated from the NanoString nCounter. It contains the definition of the NanoStringRCCSet which inherits from Biobase’s ExpressionSet class and complimentary functions that will help in starting analysis. ## Installation ### Download the release version from Bioconductor <https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/NanoStringNCTools.html> ### Install the release version from Bioconductor ``` r if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly=TRUE)) install.packages("BiocManager") BiocManager::install(version="release") BiocManager::install("NanoStringNCTools") ``` ### Install the development version from GitHub ``` r devtools::install_github("Nanostring-Biostats/NanoStringNCTools", build_vignettes = TRUE, ref = "dev") ``` ## Documentation To learn how to start using NanoStringNCTools, view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter: ``` r browseVignettes("NanoStringNCTools") ``` ## Branches The release version on Bioconductor is the stable version. <https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/NanoStringNCTools.html> The devel version on Bioconductor is upstream of master on GitHub. It is under active development and no guarantee is made on usability at any given time. The dev branch on GitHub is under active development and no guarantee is made on usability at any given time. ## Citation Aboyoun, P.; Ortogero, N.; Yang, Z.; Reeves, J.; Gorman, K.; Vitancol, R.; Smith, T.; Ren, Y.; Henderson, D. NanoStringNCTools: NanoString nCounter Tools. R Package Version 1.0.0. NanoString Technologies Inc.; Seattle, WA 98109, USA. 2021. ## License This project is licensed under the [MIT license](LICENSE).