vcfheader: Fast Genetic Variant Call Format File Header Intelligence and Audit
Streams and parses variant call format file headers without reading full files. Provides structured metadata, validation, inference, and HTML reporting. For details on the specifications used see Danecek et al. (2021) <doi:10.1093/gigascience/giab008>.
| Version: | 0.1.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| Suggests: | knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), xml2 |
| Published: | 2026-03-06 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.vcfheader (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Dylan Lawless 
[aut, cre, cph] |
| Maintainer: | Dylan Lawless <admin at switzerlandomics.ch> |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Language: | en-GB |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | vcfheader results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | vcfheader.html , vcfheader.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Getting started with vcfheader (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | vcfheader_0.1.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: vcfheader_0.1.0.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): vcfheader_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): vcfheader_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available |
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