DNAtools

0.2-5

Tools for Analysing Forensic Genetic DNA Data

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4.2Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Mikkel Meyer AndersenFirst published 2010-12-0616 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Computationally efficient tools for comparing all pairs of profiles in a DNA database. The expectation and covariance of the summary statistic is implemented for fast computing. Routines for estimating proportions of close related individuals are available. The use of wildcards (also called F- designation) is implemented. Dedicated functions ease plotting the results. See Tvedebrink et al. (2012) doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2011.08.001. Compute the distribution of the numbers of alleles in DNA mixtures. See Tvedebrink (2013) doi:10.1016/j.fsigss.2013.10.142.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("mikldk/DNAtools")

Development version from mikldk/DNAtools. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-dnatools

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

# 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-DNAtools

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

Health

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mikldk/dnatools

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License GPL-3.0 · 89 commits · Last activity 2025-12-05

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.3.0

Imports (4)

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Mikkel Meyer Andersen

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2-2

Authors (3)

Mikkel Meyer Andersen

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2-2

James Curran

Author

Torben Tvedebrink

Author

Listed in earlier versions (3)

James Curran. Multicore extension by Mikkel Meyer Andersen.

no longer listed · 0.1-4 to 0.1-5

James Curran. Multicore extension contribution by Mikkel Meyer Andersen.

no longer listed · 0.1-6

James Curran. Mikkel Meyer Andersen <mikl@math.aau.dk> assisted on the multicore/CPU implementation.

no longer listed · 0.1-7 to 0.1-22

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2010-12-06
Total releases: 16 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) | file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 541 KB
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