RcppTskit: 'R' Access to the 'tskit C' API

'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.

Version: 0.2.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: methods, R6, Rcpp (≥ 1.0.8), reticulate (≥ 1.43.0)
LinkingTo: Rcpp (≥ 0.12.10)
Suggests: covr, knitr, quarto, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-02-27
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.RcppTskit (may not be active yet)
Author: Gregor Gorjanc ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph], Tskit Developers [cph] (Authors of included tskit C library)
Maintainer: Gregor Gorjanc <gregor.gorjanc at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/HighlanderLab/RcppTskit/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Copyright: see file COPYRIGHTS
URL: https://github.com/HighlanderLab/RcppTskit
NeedsCompilation: yes
Language: en-GB
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: RcppTskit results

Documentation:

Reference manual: RcppTskit.html , RcppTskit.pdf
Vignettes: RcppTskit: Working with tree sequences in R (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: RcppTskit_0.2.0.tar.gz
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