gaston

1.6

Genetic Data Handling (QC, GRM, LD, PCA) & Linear Mixed Models

8packages depend

103.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Hervé PerdryFirst published 2015-10-0220 releasesCRAN page ↗

Manipulation of genetic data (SNPs). Computation of GRM and dominance matrix, LD, heritability with efficient algorithms for linear mixed model (AIREML). Dandine et al doi:10.1159/000488519.

Install

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

install.packages("gaston", 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-gaston

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-gaston

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 16.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-04-25
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NOTE2026-04-22
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 97%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 89%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

103.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,518 · ~284/day · ~8.6K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

Rcpp RcppParallelmethods

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppParallel RcppEigen

Suggests (2)

knitr RcppEigen

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

4indirect

Ravages milorGWAS RAINBOWR hierfstat rNeighborGWAS rNeighborQTL snpsettest Ravages milorGWAS bigsnpr

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Hervé Perdry

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder · added in 1.5.3

Authors (2)

Hervé Perdry

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder · added in 1.5.3

Claire Dandine-Roulland

Author, Copyright holder · added in 1.5.3

Hervé Perdry

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder · added in 1.5.3

Claire Dandine-Roulland

Author, Copyright holder · added in 1.5.3

Deepak Bandyopadhyay

Lutz Kettner

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Hervé Perdry & Claire Dandine-Roulland

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.5.2

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-02
Total releases: 20 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Bundled data: 125 KB / 5 files
Download size: 2.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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