R/get.sex.R

Defines functions get.sex

Documented in get.sex

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#' Extraction of individual sex
#'
#' Function to extract the sex of selected individuals
#' @param population Population list
#' @param database Groups of individuals to consider for the export
#' @param gen Quick-insert for database (vector of all generations to export)
#' @param cohorts Quick-insert for database (vector of names of cohorts to export)
#' @param id Individual IDs to search/collect in the database
#' @param use.id Set to TRUE to use MoBPS ids instead of Sex_Nr_Gen based names
#' @param male.female.coding Set to TRUE to display male/female instead of 1/2
#' @examples
#' data(ex_pop)
#' get.sex(ex_pop, gen=2)
#' @export
#'


get.sex <- function(population, database=NULL, gen=NULL, cohorts=NULL, id = NULL,
                    use.id=TRUE, male.female.coding = F){
  database <- get.database(population, gen, database, cohorts, id = id, per.individual = TRUE)
  sex <- database[,2]
  ids <- names(get.id(population = population, database = database, use.id = use.id))
  names(sex)<- ids

  if(male.female.coding){
    sex[sex == 1] <- "male"
    sex[sex == 2] <- "female"
  }

  return(sex)
}

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