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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 4.3.0 RC (2023-04-13 r84266)
## Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
## Running under: macOS Monterey 12.6.1
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## Matrix products: default
## BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib 
## LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.11.0
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## locale:
## [1] C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
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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_2.28.0
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## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
##  [1] digest_0.6.31       R6_2.5.1            bookdown_0.33      
##  [4] fastmap_1.1.1       xfun_0.38           cachem_1.0.7       
##  [7] knitr_1.42          htmltools_0.5.5     rmarkdown_2.21     
## [10] cli_3.6.1           sass_0.4.5          jquerylib_0.1.4    
## [13] compiler_4.3.0      tools_4.3.0         evaluate_0.20      
## [16] bslib_0.4.2         yaml_2.3.7          BiocManager_1.30.20
## [19] jsonlite_1.8.4      rlang_1.1.0