getPyramidPlot: Create an age-sex pyramid plot of a pedigree

In nprcgenekeepr: Genetic Tools for Colony Management

Create an age-sex pyramid plot of a pedigree

Description

The pedigree provided must have the following columns: sex and age. This needs to be augmented to allow pedigrees structures that are provided by the nprcgenekeepr package.

Usage

getPyramidPlot(
  ped = NULL,
  binWidth = 2L,
  ageUnit = "years",
  colorScheme = "default",
  showCounts = TRUE,
  ageLabelCex = 1
)

Arguments

ped	The pedigree information in data.frame format
binWidth	numeric bin width for age groups (default 2).
ageUnit	character either "years" (default) or "months".
colorScheme	character color scheme: "default" (blue/pink) or "viridis" (colorblind-friendly).
showCounts	logical whether to show count values on bars (default TRUE).
ageLabelCex	numeric expansion factor for age labels (default 1.0).

Value

The return value of par("mar") when the function was called.

Examples

library(nprcgenekeepr)
data(qcPed)
getPyramidPlot(qcPed)
getPyramidPlot(qcPed, binWidth = 5, colorScheme = "viridis")

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