R Observatory: Metrics for kinship2 version 1.9.6.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

kinship2

1.9.6.2

Pedigree Functions

26packages depend

103.1Kdownloads / year

29.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jason SinnwellFirst published 2011-07-2315 releasesCRAN page ↗

Routines to handle family data with a pedigree object. The initial purpose was to create correlation structures that describe family relationships such as kinship and identity-by-descent, which can be used to model family data in mixed effects models, such as in the coxme function. Also includes a tool for pedigree drawing which is focused on producing compact layouts without intervention. Recent additions include utilities to trim the pedigree object with various criteria, and kinship for the X chromosome.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("kinship2", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-kinship2

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-kinship2

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-kinship2

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.38

29.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
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NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 308 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 87%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 81%
References docs: 4%

Downloads

103.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,383 · ~282/day · ~8.6K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 3.6.0Matrixquadprog

Imports (4)

graphicsstatsmethodsknitr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

26direct

30indirect

Familias GESE MasterBayes FamEvent GENLIB LCAextend MESS famSKATRC fat2Lpoly optiSel paramlink pedtools pedtricks penetrance ribd skater BGmisc LTFHPlus Mangrove coxme gap ggpedigree pbatR sequoia simfam wpeR

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Jason Sinnwell

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Jason Sinnwell

Author, Maintainer

Terry Therneau

Author

Contributors (3)

Elizabeth Atkinson

Contributor

Carly Mester

Contributor · added in 1.8.4

Daniel Schaid

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Martha Matsumoto

no longer listed · 1.2.1 to 1.3.7

Shannon McDonnell

no longer listed · 1.2.1 to 1.6.0

Terry M

no longer listed · 1.6.4

Package Timeline

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13

Package metadata

First published: 2011-07-23
Total releases: 15 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 136 KB / 3 files
Download size: 484 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Agricultural Science Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R

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Sinnwell, J., Atkinson, E., Mester, C., Schaid, D., & Therneau, T. (2025). kinship2: Pedigree Functions (Version 1.9.6.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.kinship2

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for kinship2 version 1.9.6.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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