vcfppR: Rapid Manipulation of the Variant Call Format (VCF)

The 'vcfpp.h' (<https://github.com/Zilong-Li/vcfpp>) provides an easy-to-use 'C++' 'API' of 'htslib', offering full functionality for manipulating Variant Call Format (VCF) files. The 'vcfppR' package serves as the R bindings of the 'vcfpp.h' library, enabling rapid processing of both compressed and uncompressed VCF files. Explore a range of powerful features for efficient VCF data manipulation.

Version: 0.8.3
Depends: R (≥ 3.6.0)
Imports: Rcpp, methods, stats, utils
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Suggests: knitr, codetools, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-03-31
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.vcfppR
Author: Zilong Li ORCID iD [aut, cre], Bonfield, James K and Marshall, John and Danecek, Petr and Li, Heng and Ohan, Valeriu and Whitwham, Andrew and Keane, Thomas and Davies, Robert M [cph] (Authors of included htslib library)
Maintainer: Zilong Li <zilong.dk at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/Zilong-Li/vcfppR/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Copyright: See the file COPYRIGHTS for various htslib copyright details
vcfppR copyright details
URL: https://github.com/Zilong-Li/vcfppR
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: libcurl: libcurl-devel (rpm) or libcurl4-openssl-dev (deb), GNU make.
Citation: vcfppR citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: vcfppR results

Documentation:

Reference manual: vcfppR.html , vcfppR.pdf
Vignettes: Assess the concordance between VCFs (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: vcfppR_0.8.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: vcfppR_0.8.3.zip, r-release: vcfppR_0.8.3.zip, r-oldrel: vcfppR_0.8.3.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): vcfppR_0.8.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): vcfppR_0.8.3.tgz, r-release (x86_64): vcfppR_0.8.3.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): vcfppR_0.8.3.tgz
Old sources: vcfppR archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: BinaryDosage

Linking:

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