Rcwl
This is the development version of Rcwl; for the stable release version, see Rcwl.
All Bioconductor versions of Rcwl
3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19, 3.18, 3.17, 3.16, 3.15, 3.14, 3.13, 3.12, 3.11, 3.10, 3.9
An R interface to the Common Workflow Language
Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.29.0
The Common Workflow Language (CWL) is an open standard for development of data analysis workflows that is portable and scalable across different tools and working environments. Rcwl provides a simple way to wrap command line tools and build CWL data analysis pipelines programmatically within R. It increases the ease of usage, development, and maintenance of CWL pipelines.
Author: Qiang Hu [aut, cre], Qian Liu [aut]
Maintainer: Qiang Hu <qiang.hu at roswellpark.org>
Citation
From within R, enter citation("Rcwl"):
Qiang Hu, Qian Liu. Rcwl: An R interface to the Common Workflow Language. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.Rcwl, R package version 1.29.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rcwl.
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Installation
To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:
if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")
BiocManager::install("Rcwl")For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.
Details
| Version | 1.29.0 |
| License | GPL-2 | file LICENSE |
| Last updated | 2026-04-28 |
| In Bioconductor since | BioC 3.9 (R-3.6) (7 years) |
| Downloads rank | 1783 of 2,456 |
| Source branch | devel |
| Build report | Bioconductor build system, r-universe |
| biocViews | ImmunoOncology, Software, WorkflowStep |
| Package Short Url | https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rcwl/ |
Documentation
To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:
browseVignettes("Rcwl")| Rcwl: An R interface to the Common Workflow Language (CWL) | HTML | R Script |
| Reference Manual | ||
| NEWS | Text |
Download
Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.
| Source package | Rcwl_1.29.0.tar.gz |
| macOS binary (arm64) | Rcwl_1.29.0.tgz |
| macOS binary (x86_64) | Rcwl_1.29.0.tgz |
| Source Repository | git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/Rcwl |
| Source Repository (Developer Access) | git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/Rcwl |
| Package Downloads Report | Download Stats |
Dependencies
Depends: R (>= 3.6), yaml, methods, S4Vectors
Imports: utils, stats, BiocParallel, batchtools, DiagrammeR, shiny, R.utils, codetools, basilisk