R Observatory: Metrics for kinship2 version 1.9.6.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

kinship2

1.9.6.2Package record

Pedigree Functions

15packages dependsuggested by 10

89.9Kdownloads / year

29.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jason SinnwellCRAN 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. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.9.6.2

READMEYes · 308 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · does not mention 1.9.6.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 25includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 80%12 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 52%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 81%
Help pages citing references: 4%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

89.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,499 · ~246/day · ~7.5K/mo

Releases R versions

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5.5K30 days

16.4K90 days

89.9K1 year

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Also on776 r2u232 autocran2.2K conda_forge355 bioconda170 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing kinship2 adds 6 packages (3 with compiled code, 895 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: knitr 479 KB, xfun 224 KB, yaml 106 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.6.0Matrixquadprog

Imports (4)

graphicsstatsmethodsknitr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

15direct

31indirect

Depends 3 · Imports 12

Suggested by 10

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

MESS pedtools ribd MasterBayes Familias GESE FamEvent GENLIB penetrance famSKATRC skater paramlink fat2Lpoly LCAextend pedtricks

Suggests, most downloaded first

gap coxme BGmisc sequoia pbatR ggpedigree LTFHPlus simfam wpeR tidygedcom

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Jason Sinnwell

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.1 (2011)

Terry Therneau

Author

Elizabeth Atkinson

Contributor

Carly Mester

Contributor · added in 1.8.4

Daniel Schaid

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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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

Releases (15)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.9.6
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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1.8.4
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2019-05-31 · diff ↗ ·
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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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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2011-10-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
pedigree.legend
1.2.1
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2011-07-23
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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

Appears in task views

Agricultural Science Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R

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citation("kinship2")

Format

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 v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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