BinaryDosage: Creates, Merges, and Reads Binary Dosage Files

Tools to create binary dosage files from either VCF or GEN files, merge binary dosage files, and read binary dosage files. Binary dosage files tend to have quicker read times than VCF and GEN formats. There is a small increase in size compared to compressed VCF and GEN files.

Version:	2.0.0
Imports:	Rcpp, digest, prodlim
LinkingTo:	Rcpp
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 2.1.0), vcfppR
Published:	2026-04-29
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.BinaryDosage
Author:	John Morrison [aut, cre], NCI [fnd] (CA196559), NCI [fnd] (CA201407), NIEHS [fnd] (ES007048), NHLBI [fnd] (HL115606)
Maintainer:	John Morrison <jmorr at usc.edu>
License:	GPL-3
NeedsCompilation:	yes
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	BinaryDosage results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

BinaryDosage.html , BinaryDosage.pdf

Vignettes:

Reading SNPs from Format 5 Files (source, R code) Binary Dosage Formats (source, R code) Genetic File Information (source, R code) Legacy Binary Dosage Formats (Formats 1-4) (source, R code) Merging Format 5 Binary Dosage Files (source, R code) Merging Files (source, R code) Estimating Imputed R-squares (source, R code) Using Binary Dosage files (source, R code) Using Format 5 Binary Dosage Files (source, R code) Using GEN Files (source, R code) Using VCF Files (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	BinaryDosage_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): BinaryDosage_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): BinaryDosage_2.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available
Old sources:	BinaryDosage archive

Linking:

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