vcfppR: fast VCF library in R
Posted on 2024-06-01 by Zilong Li
The vcfppR package brings the power of vcfpp.h in R.
- Load/save content of VCF/BCF into R objects with highly customizable options
- Visualize and chracterize variants
- Compare two VCF/BCF files and report various statistics
- Streaming read/write VCF/BCF files with fine control of everything
- Paper shows vcfppR is 20x faster than
vcfR. Also, much faster thancyvcf2.