Eliminates partial parentage situations by adding unique placeholder IDs for the unknown parent.

This must be run prior to addParents since the IDs made herein are used by addParents

Usage

addUIds(ped)

Arguments

ped

datatable that is the Pedigree. It contains pedigree information. The fields sire and dam are required.

Value

The updated pedigree with partial parentage removed.

Examples

pedTwo <- data.frame(id = c("s1", "d1", "s2", "d2", "o1", "o2", "o3", "o4"),
                     sire = c(NA, "s0", "s4", NA, "s1", "s1", "s2", "s2"),
                     dam = c("d0", "d0", "d4", NA, "d1", "d2", "d2", "d2"),
                     sex = c("M", "F", "M", "F", "F", "F", "F", "M"),
                     stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
newPed <- addUIds(pedTwo)
newPed[newPed$id == "s1", ]
#>   id  sire dam sex
#> 1 s1 U0001  d0   M
pedThree <-
  data.frame(id = c("s1", "d1", "s2", "d2", "o1", "o2", "o3", "o4"),
             sire = c("s0", "s0", "s4", NA, "s1", "s1", "s2", "s2"),
             dam = c(NA, "d0", "d4", NA, "d1", "d2", "d2", "d2"),
             sex = c("M", "F", "M", "F", "F", "F", "F", "M"),
             stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
newPed <- addUIds(pedThree)
newPed[newPed$id == "s1", ]
#>   id sire   dam sex
#> 1 s1   s0 U0001   M