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Package ‘Families’
Title: Kinship Ties in (Virtual) Multi-Generation Populations
Version: 2.0.2
Imports: msm, reshape, ggplot2, rlang
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, lubridate, xml2, plyr, VirtualPop
Date: 2024-04-13
Maintainer: Frans Willekens
Description: Tools to study lineages, grandparenthood, loss of close relatives, kinship networks, and other topics in multi-generation populations.
Bug Reports: https://github.com/willekens/Families/issues
Author: Frans Willekens (willekens@nidi.nl).
Link: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Families/index.html
Package ‘DemoKin’
Title: Estimate Population Kin Distribution
Description: Estimate population kin counts and their distribution by type, age, and sex. The package implements a one-sex and two-sex framework for studying living-death availability, with time-varying rates or not, and a multi-stage model.
Version: 1.0.3
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0), ggplot2
Imports: dplyr, tidyr, purrr, progress, matrixcalc, Matrix, MASS, stats, igraph, magrittr, data.table, lifecycle
Bug Reports: https://github.com/IvanWilli/DemoKin/issues
Depends R: (>= 3.5.0)
Author: Iván Williams, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Xi Song, Caswell Hal
Maintainer: Iván Williams (act.ivanwilliams@gmail.com)
URL: https://github.com/IvanWilli/DemoKin
Package ‘kinship2’
Title: Pedigree Functions
Version: 1.9.6.2
Date: 2025-09-03
Description: Routines to handle family data with a pedigree object. The initial purpose was to create correlation structures that describe family relationships, such as kinship and identity-by-descent, which can be used to model family data in mixed effects models, such as in the coxme function. Also includes a tool for pedigree drawing, which focuses on producing compact layouts without user intervention. Recent additions include utilities to trim the pedigree object with various criteria and kinship for the X chromosome.
Imports: graphics, stats, methods, knitr
Depends R: (>= 3.6.0), Matrix, quadprog
Author: Jason Sinnwell, Terry Therneau, Daniel Schaid, Elizabeth Atkinson, Carly Mester
Maintainer: Jason Sinnwell (sinnwell.jason@mayo.edu)
URL: https://cran.r-project.org/package=kinship2
Package ‘FamEvent’
Title: Family Age-at-Onset Data Simulation and Penetrance Estimation
Version: 3.2
Date: 2024-07-02
Description: Simulates age-at-onset traits associated with a segregating major gene in family data obtained from population-based, clinic-based, or multi-stage designs. Appropriate ascertainment correction is utilized to estimate age-dependent penetrance functions either parametrically from the fitted model or nonparametrically from the data. The Expectation-Maximization algorithm can infer missing genotypes and carrier probabilities estimated from a family's genotype and phenotype information, or from a fitted model. Plot functions include pedigrees of simulated families and predicted penetrance curves based on specified parameter values.
For more information, see Choi, Y.-H., Briollais, L., He, W., and Kopciuk, K. (2021). FamEvent: An R Package for Generating and Modeling Time-to-Event Data in Family Designs, Journal of Statistical Software 97 (7), 1-30.
Depends R: (>= 3.3.0), survival
Imports: MASS, stats, kinship2, truncnorm, eha, pracma, cmprsk, matrixcalc.
Author: Yun-Hee Choi, Karen Kopciuk, Wenqing He, Laurent Briollais
Maintainer: Yun-Hee Choi
Link: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/FamEvent/index.html