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 ORCID iD [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

Linking:

Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=vcfheader to link to this page.