Package: stJoincount Type: Package Title: stJoincount - Join count statistic for quantifying spatial correlation between clusters Version: 1.14.0 Authors@R: c( person("Jiarong", "Song", email="songjiar@usc.edu",role=c("cre","aut"), comment = c('ORCID' = "0000-0002-3673-4853")), person("Rania", "Bassiouni", email="rbassiou@usc.edu", role=c("aut")), person("David","Craig",email="davidwcr@usc.edu", role=c("aut")) ) Description: stJoincount facilitates the application of join count analysis to spatial transcriptomic data generated from the 10x Genomics Visium platform. This tool first converts a labeled spatial tissue map into a raster object, in which each spatial feature is represented by a pixel coded by label assignment. This process includes automatic calculation of optimal raster resolution and extent for the sample. A neighbors list is then created from the rasterized sample, in which adjacent and diagonal neighbors for each pixel are identified. After adding binary spatial weights to the neighbors list, a multi-categorical join count analysis is performed to tabulate "joins" between all possible combinations of label pairs. The function returns the observed join counts, the expected count under conditions of spatial randomness, and the variance calculated under non-free sampling. The z-score is then calculated as the difference between observed and expected counts, divided by the square root of the variance. License: MIT + file LICENSE Encoding: UTF-8 Depends: R (>= 4.2.0) Imports: graphics, stats, dplyr, magrittr, sp, raster, spdep, ggplot2, pheatmap, grDevices, Seurat, SpatialExperiment, SummarizedExperiment RoxygenNote: 7.2.1 Suggests: BiocStyle, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0) VignetteBuilder: knitr biocViews: Transcriptomics, Clustering, Spatial, BiocViews, Software Bugreports: https://github.com/Nina-Song/stJoincount/issues URL: https://github.com/Nina-Song/stJoincount Config/testthat/edition: 3 Config/pak/sysreqs: libabsl-dev cmake libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev libglpk-dev make libmagick++-dev gsfonts libicu-dev libpng-dev libuv1-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev libproj-dev python3 libsqlite3-dev libudunits2-dev zlib1g-dev Repository: Bioconductor 3.23 Date/Publication: 2026-04-28 12:59:18 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/bioc/stJoincount RemoteRef: RELEASE_3_23 RemoteSha: c47cc61b7e325cede2130ab2118ee7123bf3c1e3 NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-07-26 06:50:48 UTC; root Author: Jiarong Song [cre, aut] (ORCID: ), Rania Bassiouni [aut], David Craig [aut] Maintainer: Jiarong Song