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VariantTools

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Tools for Exploratory Analysis of Variant Calls

v1.54.0 · Package record · software · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 2.11 · Oct 3, 2012

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 28 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Explore, diagnose, and compare variant calls using filters.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

77 22 exported

Complexity

2 avg / 12 max

Call network

77 nodes / 54 edges

Test coverage is not measured for Bioconductor packages; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

Code

Structure

Lines of code

2,887

Files

111

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 1,297 (44.9%)Tests 2 (0.1%)Docs 1,175 (40.7%)Vignettes 413 (14.3%)

API

Exported functions

26

Internal functions

52

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.00

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

96.2%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

–

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

43.8%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

3.5.0

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

Artistic-2.0

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

28

First release

2012-10-02

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

12

LOC over versions

v2.11: 1,892 LOCv2.12: 2,481 LOCv2.13: 2,426 LOCv2.14: 2,498 LOCv3.0: 2,818 LOCv3.1: 2,885 LOCv3.2: 2,885 LOCv3.3: 2,768 LOCv3.4: 2,768 LOCv3.5: 2,862 LOCv3.6: 2,862 LOCv3.7: 2,886 LOCv3.8: 2,886 LOCv3.9: 2,891 LOCv3.10: 2,891 LOCv3.11: 2,891 LOCv3.12: 2,891 LOCv3.13: 2,891 LOCv3.14: 2,891 LOCv3.15: 2,891 LOCv3.16: 2,891 LOCv3.17: 2,891 LOCv3.18: 2,891 LOCv3.19: 2,891 LOCv3.20: 2,891 LOCv3.21: 2,891 LOCv3.22: 2,891 LOCv3.23: 2,887 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.

Documentation

In the Bioconductor 3.23 release
READMENoVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION
Help pages
15
Examples that run
92%11 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples
79%
Documented parameters
94%
Return-value docs
100%
Help pages citing references
7%

Repository practices

Bioconductor git repository

Checks read the Bioconductor git repository (git.bioconductor.org), branch RELEASE_3_23.

No development-tooling practices detected in the Bioconductor git repository.

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 6
NameClassSizeAlso in
coverage_H1993–––
coverage_H2073–––
genome_p53–––
p53–––
tallies_H1993–––
tallies_H2073–––

All of VariantTools's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Michael Lawrence

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

Depended on by (4)

Suggested by (1)

People (from the free-text Author field)

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("VariantTools")

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for VariantTools version 1.54.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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