SeuratObject 5.0.1

Changes:

• Update internal calls to GetAssayData() to use layer instead of slot (#160)
• Update Matrix version to 1.6-2 (#164)
• Change layer-saving in SaveSeuratRds() to move all layers instead of just those in tempdir() (#169)
• Update internal calls to SetAssayData() to use layer instead of slot (#171)
• Replace internal calls of FilterObjects() to .FilterObjects() (#171)

SeuratObject 5.0.0

Added

• New Assay5 class with support for layers; layers provide support for:
  • arbitrary expression matrix names and number
  • arbitrary expression matrix shape
  • disk-backed expression matrices
• New $ method for Assay and Assay5 objects to pull expression matrices, replacing informal usage of @
• New LayerData() and LayerData()<- functions to replace GetAssayData() and SetAssayData(), respectively
• Support for renaming cells and features with dimnames()<- (changing feature names does not apply to v3 Assay objects)
• New SaveSeuratRds() and LoadSeuratRds() to save and load Seurat objects with disk-backed layers
• New droplevels.LogMap() to drop unused entries from a LogMap
• New ability to split (split()) and rejoin layers (JoinLayers()) within Assay and Assay5 objects based on grouping factor

Changes

• slot argument deprecated in all contexts; where applicable, replaced with layer argument
• [ for Assay and Assay5 objects take a layer name to pull an expression matrix
  • option Seurat.object.assay.brackets allows restoring v3/v4 behavior of subsetting the main expression matrix (eg. data)
• Stricter object validation routines at all levels
• PackageCheck() deprecated in favor of rlang::check_installed()
• AttachDeps() deprecated in favor of using the Depends field of DESCRIPTION
• Subobjects within a Seurat object may have subsets of cells present at the object level
• Begun replacement of stop() and warning() with rlang::abort() and rlang::warn() for easier debugging
• Expanded validation and utility of KeyMixin objects

Removed

• Unused object constructors (eg. Assay(), Seurat())

SeuratObject 4.1.4

Changes

• Fixes for CellsByIdentities (#80)
• Remove {rgeos} from Suggests and replace with {sf} due to {rgeos} package retirement
• New check for potential binary breaks between dependencies and SeuratObject

SeuratObject 4.1.3

Changes

• Move {rgeos} to Suggests; segmentation simplification now requires {rgeos} to be installed manually
• Move {sp} to Depends

Added

• Add keys to Assays and DimReducs in UpdateSeuratObject when missing

SeuratObject 4.1.2

Changed

• Bump required Matrix version to >= 1.5.0

SeuratObject 4.1.1

Changed

• Update sparse matrix coersions due to Matrix deprecations

SeuratObject 4.1.0

Changed

• Allow UpdateSeuratObject to work when data is NULL (#38)
• Fix superclass issue with R-devel 4.3.x (#42)

Added

• New FOV, Segmentations, Centroids, and Molecules classes for imaging-based spatial datasets

SeuratObject 4.0.4

Changed

• CreateSeuratObject.Assay sets Assay key when not present (#29)
• Ignore warnings when creating an Assay from a data frame (#32)

Added

• New CheckMatrix generic for validating expression matrices

SeuratObject 4.0.3

Changed

• Export utility functions (#22)
• Bug fix in names with Key.Seurat (#26)
• Improved duplicate key checking and resolution

SeuratObject 4.0.2

Changed

• Provide default option for Seurat.checkdots option if option is not set (#16)

SeuratObject 4.0.1

Added

• head and tail methods for Seurat and Assay objects (#5)
• New utility functions (#6):
  • AttachDeps to attach required imported dependencies on package attachment
  • IsMatrixEmpty to test if a matrix is empty or not

Changed

• Allow super classes to replace child classes (#1). For example, allows Assay objects to replace Seurat::SCTAssay or Signac::ChromatinAssay objects of the same name
• Better support for creating sparse matrices from data.table/tibble objects (#4)
• Improved error messages for clashing object names (#7)
• Allow returning a NULL if a subset results in zero cells (#9)

Removed

• SCT-specific code (#2)

SeuratObject 4.0.0

• Initial release of SeuratObject