getDescendants: Returns a list of the descendants of a particular variety (if...

In lrutter/ggenealogy: Visualization Tools for Genealogical Data

Returns a list of the descendants of a particular variety (if they exist)

Description

This function returns a list of the descendants of the inputted variety within and including a given number of generations

Usage

getDescendants(v1, geneal, gen = 3)

Arguments

v1	the label of the vertex of interest (in character string format)
geneal	the full genealogy (in data frame format)
gen	the number of generations back to include as descendants

References

Rutter L, VanderPlas S, Cook D, Graham MA (2019). ggenealogy: An R Package for Visualizing Genealogical Data. Journal of Statistical Software, 89(13), 1–31. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18637/jss.v089.i13")}

Examples

data(sbGeneal)
getChild("Essex", sbGeneal)
getDescendants("Essex", sbGeneal, 1)
getDescendants("Essex", sbGeneal, 3)

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