skater

0.2.0

Utilities for SNP-Based Kinship Analysis

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4.1Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by VP NagrajFirst published 2021-12-034 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Utilities for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) based kinship analysis testing and evaluation. The 'skater' package contains functions for importing, parsing, and analyzing pedigree data, performing relationship degree inference, benchmarking relationship degree classification, and summarizing identity by descent (IBD) segment data. Package functions and methods are described in Turner et al. (2021) "skater: An R package for SNP-based Kinship Analysis, Testing, and Evaluation" doi:10.1101/2021.07.21.453083.

Install

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

install.packages("skater", 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("signaturescience/skater")

Development version from signaturescience/skater. 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-skater

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-skater

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-skater

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

8.4%

Coverage · measured lines

94%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-18
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 3 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 63 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 40%

Downloads

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Rank #7,085 · ~11/day · ~342/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ signaturescience/skater

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284 commits · Last activity 2026-03-07 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/signaturescience/skater on 2026-07-30.

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cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (10)

magrittr dplyr tidyr readr purrr kinship2 corrrgrDevicestibble rlang

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none

Suggests (4)

rmarkdown markdown knitr testthat

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

VP Nagraj

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

VP Nagraj

Author, Maintainer

Matthew Scholz

Author

Stephen Turner

Author

Signature Science, LLC.

Package Timeline

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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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.1
2022-02-01 · diff ↗
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2021-12-03
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-12-03
Total releases: 4 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 448 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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