pedtools: Creating and Working with Pedigrees and Marker Data

A comprehensive collection of tools for creating, manipulating and visualising pedigrees and genetic marker data. Pedigrees can be read from text files or created on the fly with built-in functions. A range of utilities enable modifications like adding or removing individuals, breaking loops, and merging pedigrees. An online tool for creating pedigrees interactively, based on 'pedtools', is available at <https://magnusdv.shinyapps.io/quickped>. 'pedtools' is the hub of the 'pedsuite', a collection of packages for pedigree analysis. A detailed presentation of the 'pedsuite' is given in the book 'Pedigree Analysis in R' (Vigeland, 2021, ISBN:9780128244302).

Version:	2.10.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.2)
Imports:	kinship2, pedmut
Suggests:	kableExtra, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat
Published:	2026-02-01
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.pedtools
Author:	Magnus Dehli Vigeland [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Magnus Dehli Vigeland <m.d.vigeland at medisin.uio.no>
License:	GPL-3
URL:	https://github.com/magnusdv/pedtools, https://magnusdv.github.io/pedsuite/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-GB
Citation:	pedtools citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	pedtools results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	pedtools.html , pedtools.pdf
Vignettes:	Introduction to the pedtools package (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	pedtools_2.10.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: pedtools_2.10.0.zip, r-release: pedtools_2.10.0.zip, r-oldrel: pedtools_2.10.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): pedtools_2.10.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): pedtools_2.10.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): pedtools_2.10.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): pedtools_2.10.0.tgz
Old sources:	pedtools archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends:	dvir, forrel, ibdsim2, paramlink2, pedbuildr, pedFamilias, pedprobr, pedsuite, ribd, segregatr, verbalisr
Reverse imports:	forensicolors, ibdfindr, ibdsegments, KinMixLite, KLINK, mispitools, numberofalleles, relMix
Reverse suggests:	simDNAmixtures

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