A Fast and Light Package to Compute Polygenic Risk Scores
Overview
Quickly computes polygenic scores from GWAS summary statistics of either case-control or quantitative traits without parameter tuning. Reales,G., Vigorito, E., Kelemen,M., Wallace,C. (2021) doi:10.1101/2020.07.24.220392 "RápidoPGS: A rapid polygenic score calculator for summary GWAS data without a test dataset".
RapidoPGS 2.3.2
2026-03-30
- Fixed issues with
GenomeInfoDbthat caused RapidoPGS to be archived on CRAN.
From NEWS.md in the release
Install
Health
- OK13 OK2026-09-08
- ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
- OK13 OK2026-08-05
- NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
- OK5 OK2026-04-03
Documentation
- Help pages
- 14
- Examples that run
- 50%2 run in a plain check · 2 never run
- Exported functions with examples
- 80%
- Documented parameters
- 98%
- Return-value docs
- 80%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
Downloads
Dependencies
Installing RapidoPGS adds 72 packages (41 with compiled code, 61 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB. 2 more not on CRAN are not measured.
Code & Tests
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People & History
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- RR 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
- unarchivedReturned to CRAN2026-04-03
- 2.3.2Latest
- archivedRemoved from CRAN2025-11-07issues were not corrected despite reminders
- RR 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
- 2.3.12025-02-19 · diff ↗
- RR 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
- 2.3.02023-10-13 · diff ↗
- RR 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
- 2.2.02022-06-15 · diff ↗
- RR 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
- unarchivedReturned to CRAN2021-06-17
- 2.1.02021-06-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
computePGSadded 4 exports
create_1000G, rapidopgs_multi, rapidopgs_single, sd.prior.est - archivedRemoved from CRAN2021-05-24requires archived package 'bigsnpr'
- RR 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
- 1.0.22020-08-07
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- RR 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
Package metadata
- First published
- 2020-08-07
- Total releases
- 6 / 6 yrs
- License
- GPL-3 OSI
- Minimum R
- ≥ 4.3
- Bundled data
- 3.5 MB / 4 files
- Download size
- 3.6 MB
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