ancestors: Individuals to be evaluated in purging analyses

In purgeR: Inbreeding-Purging Estimation in Pedigreed Populations

Individuals to be evaluated in purging analyses

Description

Returns a boolean vector indicating what individuals are suitable for purging analyses, given a measure of fitness. Individuals with NA values of fitness, and that do not have descendants with non-NA fitness values, are excluded.

Usage

ancestors(ped, reference, rp_idx, nboot = 10000L, seed = NULL, skip_Ng = FALSE)

Arguments

ped	A dataframe containing the pedigree. Individual (id), maternal (dam), and paternal (sire) identities are mandatory columns.
reference	A string naming a column indicating whether individuals belong to the reference population or not. Column must be boolean or coercible to boolean type.
rp_idx	Vector containing the indexes of individuals of the RP
nboot	Number of bootstrap iterations (for computing Ng).
seed	Sets a seed for the random number generator.
skip_Ng	Skip Ng computation or not (FALSE by default).

Value

Boolean vector indicating what individuals will be evaluated.

purgeR documentation built on Aug. 16, 2023, 9:07 a.m.