visPedigree

1.9.0

Tidying, Analysis, and Fast Visualization of Animal and Plant Pedigrees

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2.9Kdownloads / year

83.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sheng LuanFirst published 2026-01-214 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides tools for the analysis and visualization of animal and plant pedigrees. Analytical methods include equivalent complete generations, generation intervals, effective population size (via inbreeding, coancestry, and demographic approaches), founder and ancestor contributions, partial inbreeding, genetic diversity indices, and additive (A), dominance (D), and epistatic (AA) relationship matrices. Core algorithms — ancestry tracing, topological sorting, inbreeding coefficients, and matrix construction — are implemented in C++ ('Rcpp', 'RcppArmadillo') and 'data.table', scaling to pedigrees with over one million individuals. Matrix-free pedigree traversals apply additive relationship matrices or their inverses to vectors and matrices without materializing dense square matrices. Pedigree graphs are rendered via 'igraph' with support for compact full-sib family display; relationship matrices can be visualized as heatmaps. Supports complex mating systems, including selfing and pedigrees in which the same individual can appear as both sire and dam.

Install

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

install.packages("visPedigree", 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("luansheng/visPedigree")

Development version from luansheng/visPedigree. 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-vispedigree

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-visPedigree

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.3 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.50

83.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 363 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 61%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 9%

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,528 · ~8/day · ~238/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ luansheng/vispedigree

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428Commits

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License GPL-3.0 · 428 commits · Last activity 2026-07-14 · +5.3% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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

Checks run against github.com/luansheng/vispedigree on 2026-07-19.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

data.table igraphMatrixmethodsRcpplattice

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Rcpp RcppArmadillo

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Sheng Luan

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Sheng Luan

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Package Timeline

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1.9.0Latest
2026-07-15 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.8.1
2026-03-30 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2026-02-23 · diff ↗
0.7.1
2026-01-21
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-21
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 500 KB / 8 files
Download size: 4.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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