# VariantFiltering: Filtering of coding and non-coding genetic variants
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**Current build status**
- `release` [](http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/VariantFiltering.html#archives "Whether VariantFiltering release is available on all platforms")
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[](http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/VariantFiltering/ "Bioconductor devel build")
## Installation
This is the __development__ version of the R/Bioconductor package VariantFiltering. This version is unstable and should be used only to test new features. If you are looking for the __release__ version of this package please go to its package release landing page at [http://bioconductor.org/packages/VariantFiltering](http://bioconductor.org/packages/VariantFiltering) and follow the instructions there to install it.
If you were really looking for this development version, then to install it you
need first to install the development version of R that you can find at [http://cran.r-project.org](http://cran.r-project.org) and then type the following instructions from the R shell:
```r
if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly=TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("VariantFiltering", version="devel")
```
Alternatively, you can install it from GitHub using the [devtools](https://github.com/hadley/devtools "devtools") package.
```r
install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github("rcastelo/VariantFiltering")
```
## Questions, bug reports and issues
For questions and bug reports regarding the __release__ version of **VariantFiltering**
please use the [Bioconductor support site](http://support.bioconductor.org "Bioconductor support site").
For bug reports and issues regarding this __development__ version of **VariantFiltering**
please use the GitHub issues link at the top-right of this page
([https://github.com/rcastelo/VariantFiltering/issues](https://github.com/rcastelo/VariantFiltering/issues)).
