R package 'pedSimulate'

Simulate Pedigree, genetic merits and phenotypes with random mating followed by (non)random selection differntly for males and females.

Installation

Installing the package from CRAN:

install.packages("pedSimulate")

Installing the package from GitHub:

devtools::install_github('nilforooshan/pedSimulate')

Description

An R package for simulating a pedigree with genetic merits and phenotypes, starting from a base population (generation 0). The pedigree depth and design can be chosen by the values provided to the arguments of the simulation function. Arguments are provided for the following:

• Number of founder animals
• Proportion of females selected as dams
• Proportion of males selected as sires
• Mortality rate
• Litter size
• Number of generations to simulate
• Number of generation overlaps for sires
• Number of generation overlaps for dams
• Choice of avoiding fullsib matings
• Choice of avoiding parent-progeny matings
• Additive genetic variance in the base generation
• Environment (plus residual) variance
• (non)random selection on females
• (non)random selection on males

For details, please read the PDF manual.

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