ibdreg (version 0.2.2)

exact.ibd.var: create an ibd.var object

Description

create an ibd.var object from a temporary output file produced by exact.ibd.var.pl perl script, which uses exact computations from merlin

Usage

exact.ibd.var(file)

Arguments

file

a temporary output file created by exact.ibd.var.pl, a perl scripts provided in /ibdreg/perl/ in the ibdreg package

Value

• an ibd.var object (e.g. ret) that contains the following elements for each pedigree:

  ret$ped.id: pedigree id
  ret$person1.id: vector of ids for first person in the relative pair
  ret$person2.id: vector of ids for second person in the relative pair
  ret$sm: mean vector of ibd sharing between relative pairs {person1.id, person2.id}
  ret$sv: variance-covariance matrix for ibd sharing between pairs of
  relative pairs.
  

See Also

sim.ibd.var

Examples

## create a temporary file using perl script

# unix\% exact.ibd.var.pl chrom1.pre 1 chr1.var.tmp

## make an ibd.var object from chr1.var.tmp file

# RorS> chr1.ibd.var <- exact.ibd.var("chr1.var.tmp")