removeDuplicates: Remove duplicate records from pedigree

In nprcgenekeepr: Genetic Tools for Colony Management

Remove duplicate records from pedigree

Description

Part of Pedigree Curation

Usage

removeDuplicates(ped, reportErrors = FALSE)

Arguments

ped	dataframe that is the Pedigree. It contains pedigree information. The id and recordStatus columns are required.
reportErrors	logical value if TRUE the function returns a character vector of duplicate id values found among original records (or NULL when none are found) instead of the de-duplicated pedigree.

Details

Returns an updated dataframe with duplicate rows removed.

Returns an error if the table has duplicate IDs with differing data.

Value

When reportErrors is FALSE, a Pedigree object with duplicate rows removed; when reportErrors is TRUE, a character vector of duplicate id values (or NULL when none are found).

Examples

ped <- nprcgenekeepr::smallPed
newPed <- cbind(ped, recordStatus = rep("original", nrow(ped)))
ped1 <- removeDuplicates(newPed)
nrow(newPed)
nrow(ped1)
pedWithDups <- rbind(newPed, newPed[1:3, ])
ped2 <- removeDuplicates(pedWithDups)
nrow(pedWithDups)
nrow(ped2)

nprcgenekeepr documentation built on July 26, 2026, 5:06 p.m.