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vcfR (version 1.0.0)

vcfR-class: vcfR class

Description

An S4 class for storing vcf data.

Arguments

Details

Defines a class for variant call format data. A vcfR object contains three slots. The first slot is a character vector which holds the meta data. The second slot holds an eight column matrix to hold the fixed data. The third slot is a matrix which holds the genotype data.

See vignette('vcf_data') for more information. See the http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/{vcf specification} for the file specification.