Load plotVCF

Once plotVCF is installed, you simply need to load the library into your current R session the same way you do with any other R package:

library(plotVCF)

While it loads, you will see an output similar to:

Loading required package: VariantAnnotation
Loading required package: BiocGenerics

Attaching package: ‘BiocGenerics’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’:

    IQR, mad, sd, var, xtabs

The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:

    anyDuplicated, aperm, append, as.data.frame, basename, cbind,
    colnames, dirname, do.call, duplicated, eval, evalq, Filter, Find,
    get, grep, grepl, intersect, is.unsorted, lapply, Map, mapply,
    match, mget, order, paste, pmax, pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int,
    Position, rank, rbind, Reduce, rownames, sapply, setdiff, sort,
    table, tapply, union, unique, unsplit, which.max, which.min

Loading required package: MatrixGenerics
Loading required package: matrixStats

Attaching package: ‘MatrixGenerics’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:matrixStats’:

    colAlls, colAnyNAs, colAnys, colAvgsPerRowSet, colCollapse,
    colCounts, colCummaxs, colCummins, colCumprods, colCumsums,
    colDiffs, colIQRDiffs, colIQRs, colLogSumExps, colMadDiffs,
    colMads, colMaxs, colMeans2, colMedians, colMins, colOrderStats,
    colProds, colQuantiles, colRanges, colRanks, colSdDiffs, colSds,
    colSums2, colTabulates, colVarDiffs, colVars, colWeightedMads,
    colWeightedMeans, colWeightedMedians, colWeightedSds,
    colWeightedVars, rowAlls, rowAnyNAs, rowAnys, rowAvgsPerColSet,
    rowCollapse, rowCounts, rowCummaxs, rowCummins, rowCumprods,
    rowCumsums, rowDiffs, rowIQRDiffs, rowIQRs, rowLogSumExps,
    rowMadDiffs, rowMads, rowMaxs, rowMeans2, rowMedians, rowMins,
    rowOrderStats, rowProds, rowQuantiles, rowRanges, rowRanks,
    rowSdDiffs, rowSds, rowSums2, rowTabulates, rowVarDiffs, rowVars,
    rowWeightedMads, rowWeightedMeans, rowWeightedMedians,
    rowWeightedSds, rowWeightedVars

Loading required package: GenomeInfoDb
Loading required package: S4Vectors
Loading required package: stats4

Attaching package: ‘S4Vectors’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:

    expand.grid, I, unname

Loading required package: IRanges
Loading required package: GenomicRanges
Loading required package: SummarizedExperiment
Loading required package: Biobase
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    'citation("Biobase")', and for packages 'citation("pkgname")'.


Attaching package: ‘Biobase’

The following object is masked from ‘package:MatrixGenerics’:

    rowMedians

The following objects are masked from ‘package:matrixStats’:

    anyMissing, rowMedians

Loading required package: Rsamtools
Loading required package: Biostrings
Loading required package: XVector

Attaching package: ‘Biostrings’

The following object is masked from ‘package:base’:

    strsplit


Attaching package: ‘VariantAnnotation’

The following object is masked from ‘package:base’:

    tabulate

Loading required package: dplyr

Attaching package: ‘dplyr’

The following object is masked from ‘package:VariantAnnotation’:

    select

The following objects are masked from ‘package:Biostrings’:

    collapse, intersect, setdiff, setequal, union

The following object is masked from ‘package:XVector’:

    slice

The following object is masked from ‘package:Biobase’:

    combine

The following objects are masked from ‘package:GenomicRanges’:

    intersect, setdiff, union

The following object is masked from ‘package:GenomeInfoDb’:

    intersect

The following objects are masked from ‘package:IRanges’:

    collapse, desc, intersect, setdiff, slice, union

The following objects are masked from ‘package:S4Vectors’:

    first, intersect, rename, setdiff, setequal, union

The following object is masked from ‘package:matrixStats’:

    count

The following objects are masked from ‘package:BiocGenerics’:

    combine, intersect, setdiff, union

The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’:

    filter, lag

The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:

    intersect, setdiff, setequal, union

Registered S3 method overwritten by 'GGally':
  method from   
  +.gg   ggplot2

This means that R is loading plotVCF dependencies, once done, you will be prompted to your session again and able to actually run plotVCF on your VCF files!