RcppTskit

0.2.0

'R' Access to the 'tskit C' API

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1.1Kdownloads / year

21.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gregor GorjancFirst published 2026-02-271 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

'Tskit' enables efficient storage, manipulation, and analysis of ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) using succinct tree sequence encoding. The tree sequence encoding of an ARG is described in Wong et al. (2024) doi:10.1093/genetics/iyae100, while `tskit` project is described in Jeffrey et al. (2026) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2602.09649. See also https://tskit.dev for project news, documentation, and tutorials. 'Tskit' provides 'Python', 'C', and 'Rust' application programming interfaces (APIs). The 'Python' API can be called from 'R' via the 'reticulate' package to load and analyse tree sequences as described at https://tskit.dev/tutorials/tskitr.html. 'RcppTskit' provides 'R' access to the 'tskit C' API for cases where the 'reticulate' option is not optimal; for example, high-performance or low-level work with tree sequences. Currently, 'RcppTskit' provides a limited set of 'R' functions because the 'Python' API and 'reticulate' already covers most needs.

Install

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

install.packages("RcppTskit", 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("HighlanderLab/RcppTskit")

Development version from HighlanderLab/RcppTskit. 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-rcpptskit

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-RcppTskit

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-RcppTskit

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.08

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Coverage · measured lines

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Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 70%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 78%
References docs: 0%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ highlanderlab/rcpptskit

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144 commits · Last activity 2026-04-10

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (4)

methodsR6 Rcpp reticulate

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Rcpp

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People & History

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Maintainer (1)

Gregor Gorjanc

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

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Gregor Gorjanc

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Gregor Gorjanc

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-27
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 266 KB
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