Rduckhts: 'DuckDB' High Throughput Sequencing File Formats Reader Extension

Bundles the 'duckhts' 'DuckDB' extension for reading High Throughput Sequencing file formats with 'DuckDB'. The 'DuckDB' C extension API <https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/clients/c/api> and its 'htslib' dependency are compiled from vendored sources during package installation. James K Bonfield and co-authors (2021) <doi:10.1093/gigascience/giab007>.

Version: 0.1.2-0.1.4
Depends: R (≥ 4.4.0)
Imports: DBI, duckdb, utils
Suggests: tinytest
Published: 2026-02-23
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.Rduckhts (may not be active yet)
Author: Sounkou Mahamane Toure [aut, cre], James K Bonfield, John Marshall,Petr Danecek ,Heng Li , Valeriu Ohan, Andrew Whitwham,Thomas Keane , Robert M Davies [ctb] (Htslib Authors), DuckDB C Extension API Authors [ctb]
Maintainer: Sounkou Mahamane Toure <sounkoutoure at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/RGenomicsETL/duckhts/issues
License: GPL-3
Copyright: See inst/COPYRIGHT
URL: https://github.com/RGenomicsETL/duckhts
NeedsCompilation: no
SystemRequirements: GNU make, cmake, zlib, libbz2, liblzma, libcurl, openssl (development headers)
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: Rduckhts results [issues need fixing before 2026-03-09]

Documentation:

Reference manual: Rduckhts.html , Rduckhts.pdf

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Package source: Rduckhts_0.1.2-0.1.4.tar.gz
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