Import VCF file

Function to import raw single and multi-sample VCF files. The function required the R-package data.table for faster importing.

Usage

readVCF(vcf.file.path, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

vcf.file.path

path to the vcf file

verbose

logical. show progress

Value

Returns a list with vcf table in a data frame, excluding meta data.

Author

Piyal Karunarathne

Examples

vcf.file.path <- paste0(path.package("rCNV"), "/example.raw.vcf.gz")
vcf <- readVCF(vcf.file.path)