VCFArrow: Fast and Memory-Efficient Manipulation and Conversion of VCF Files

Reads Variant Call Format (VCF) files into an S4 object whose genotypes are stored on disk as an 'Apache Arrow' dataset and loaded lazily, allowing large datasets to be processed with little memory. Provides functions to filter variants and samples, subset and merge datasets, compute summary statistics and diagnostic plots, write VCF files, and convert data to input formats of population genetic and phylogenetic software such as 'STRUCTURE', 'ADMIXTURE', 'PLINK', 'EIGENSTRAT', 'Arlequin', 'GENEPOP', 'BayeScan', 'TreeMix', 'SNAPP' and 'adegenet'.

Version:	0.9.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	Rcpp, arrow, cli, dplyr, ggplot2, methods, parallel, stats, stringr, tibble, utils, vctrs
LinkingTo:	Rcpp
Suggests:	adegenet, knitr, rmarkdown, svglite
Published:	2026-10-16
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.VCFArrow (may not be active yet)
Author:	Tomas Hrbek [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer:	Tomas Hrbek <hrbek at evoamazon.net>
BugReports:	https://github.com/legalLab/VCFArrow/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://legallab.github.io/VCFArrow/, https://github.com/legalLab/VCFArrow
NeedsCompilation:	yes
SystemRequirements:	zlib
Language:	en-US
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	VCFArrow results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	VCFArrow.html , VCFArrow.pdf
Vignettes:	VCFArrow (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	VCFArrow_0.9.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: VCFArrow_0.9.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): VCFArrow_0.9.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): VCFArrow_0.9.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): VCFArrow_0.9.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): VCFArrow_0.9.0.tgz

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