Makes a simulated pedigree using representative sires and dams

For each id in allSimParents with one or more unknown parents each unknown parent is replaced with a random sire or dam as needed from the corresponding parent vector (sires or dams).

Usage

makeSimPed(ped, allSimParents, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

ped

pedigree information in data.frame format

allSimParents

list made up of lists where the internal list has the offspring ID id, a vector of representative sires (sires), and a vector of representative dams (dams).

verbose

logical vector of length one that indicates whether or not to print out when an animal is missing a sire or a dam.

Value

simulated pedigree in data.frame format with the id, sire, and dam.

Details

The algorithm assigns parents randomly from the lists of possible sires and dams and does not prevent a dam from being selected more than once within the same breeding period. While this is probably not introducing a large error, it is not ideal.