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1 Motivation

This is an umbrella package for the alabaster framework that serves as an installation target to ensure that all (known) alabaster.* packages are installed. Doing so is necessary because various functions in alabaster.base dynamically identify the packages required to (un)serialize a particular resource. By installing all alabaster.* packages at once, we ensure that the dynamic look-up does not fail due to a missing package.

This umbrella is only provided for convenient installation and is not otherwise necessary for the functioning of alabaster framework. In fact, advanced users and package/application developers may prefer to install their required alabaster.* packages individually rather than relying on this umbrella. This reduces the number of dependent packages that need to be installed, which is possible in scenarios where a limited subset of resource types are to be processed.

Session information

sessionInfo()
## R version 4.4.0 beta (2024-04-15 r86425 ucrt)
## Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
## Running under: Windows Server 2022 x64 (build 20348)
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## Matrix products: default
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## [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
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## time zone: America/New_York
## tzcode source: internal
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## attached base packages:
## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
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## other attached packages:
## [1] BiocStyle_2.32.0
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## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
##  [1] digest_0.6.35       R6_2.5.1            bookdown_0.39      
##  [4] fastmap_1.1.1       xfun_0.43           cachem_1.0.8       
##  [7] knitr_1.46          htmltools_0.5.8.1   rmarkdown_2.26     
## [10] lifecycle_1.0.4     cli_3.6.2           sass_0.4.9         
## [13] jquerylib_0.1.4     compiler_4.4.0      tools_4.4.0        
## [16] evaluate_0.23       bslib_0.7.0         yaml_2.3.8         
## [19] BiocManager_1.30.22 jsonlite_1.8.8      rlang_1.1.3