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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 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
## Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
## Running under: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
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## Matrix products: default
## BLAS:   /home/biocbuild/bbs-3.20-bioc/R/lib/libRblas.so 
## LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.12.0
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## locale:
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##  [3] LC_TIME=en_GB              LC_COLLATE=C              
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##  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
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## [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
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## time zone: America/New_York
## tzcode source: system (glibc)
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## attached base packages:
## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
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## other attached packages:
## [1] BiocStyle_2.34.0
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##  [1] digest_0.6.37       R6_2.5.1            bookdown_0.41      
##  [4] fastmap_1.2.0       xfun_0.48           cachem_1.1.0       
##  [7] knitr_1.48          htmltools_0.5.8.1   rmarkdown_2.28     
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## [16] evaluate_1.0.1      bslib_0.8.0         yaml_2.3.10        
## [19] BiocManager_1.30.25 jsonlite_1.8.9      rlang_1.1.4