[<img src="https://www.bioconductor.org/images/logo/jpg/bioconductor_logo_rgb.jpg" width="200" align="right"/>](https://bioconductor.org/) **Rhtslib** is an R/Bioconductor package that provides version 1.18 of the [HTSlib](http://www.htslib.org/) C library for high-throughput sequence analysis. The package is primarily useful to developers of other R packages who wish to make use of HTSlib. The permanent URL to HTSlib 1.18 is https://sourceforge.net/projects/samtools/files/samtools/1.18/ See https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rhtslib for more information including how to install the release version of the package (please refrain from installing directly from GitHub).