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title: 'gdscloud: Cloud Storage Access for GDS Files'
version: 0.99.6
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.gdscloud
abstract: Provides read-only access to GDS (Genomic Data Structure) files stored on
  cloud storage services including Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), and Azure
  Blob Storage, as well as any HTTP/HTTPS URL. It extends the 'gdsfmt' package so
  that cloud URLs (http://, https://, s3://, gs://, az://) can be opened transparently,
  without downloading the whole file first. Only the blocks that are actually read
  are fetched, using HTTP Range requests via libcurl together with an in-memory least-recently-used
  block cache, so that random access to a remote GDS file behaves like access to a
  local one. Credentials are resolved from the usual environment variables of each
  service, or set per session and per URL prefix, and they can be exported to the
  workers of a parallel cluster.
authors:
- family-names: Zheng
  given-names: Xiuwen
  email: zhengx@u.washington.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1390-0708
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'gdscloud: Cloud Storage Access for GDS Files'
  authors:
  - family-names: Zheng
    given-names: Xiuwen
    email: zhengx@u.washington.edu
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1390-0708
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.99.0
  url: https://github.com/zhengxwen/gdscloud
repository: https://bioc.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/zhengxwen/gdscloud
commit: 094075f4ac082d668147f88d5f532fd6f7a04c39
url: https://github.com/zhengxwen/gdscloud
date-released: '2026-10-17'
contact:
- family-names: Zheng
  given-names: Xiuwen
  email: zhengx@u.washington.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1390-0708