pgenlibr: 'PLINK' 2 Binary (.pgen) Reader

A thin wrapper over 'PLINK' 2's core libraries which provides an R interface for reading .pgen files. A minimal .pvar loader is also included. Chang et al. (2015) <doi:10.1186/s13742-015-0047-8>.

Package details

AuthorChristopher Chang [aut, cre], Eric Biggers [ctb, cph] (Author of included libdeflate library), Yann Collet [ctb] (Author of included Zstd library), Meta Platforms, Inc. [cph] (Zstd library), Evan Nemerson [ctb, cph] (Author of included SIMDe library), Przemyslaw Skibinski [ctb] (Author of included Zstd library), Nick Terrell [ctb] (Author of included Zstd library)
MaintainerChristopher Chang <chrchang@alumni.caltech.edu>
LicenseLGPL (>= 3)
Version0.5.5
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("pgenlibr")

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