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Function to find the oldest individuals in a pedigree This function finds the oldest families in a pedigree. It is supposed to be used internally by the summarize_pedigree function.

Source: R/summarizePedigree.R
findOldest.Rd

Function to find the oldest individuals in a pedigree This function finds the oldest families in a pedigree. It is supposed to be used internally by the summarize_pedigree function.

Usage

findOldest(
  foo_summary_dt,
  byr = "byr",
  n_fooest = 5,
  n_foo_total = nrow(foo_summary_dt)
)

Arguments

foo_summary_dt

A data.table containing the summary statistics.

byr

Character. Optional column name for birth year. Used to determine the oldest lineages.

n_fooest

An integer specifying the number of individuals in the summary.

n_foo_total

An integer specifying the total number of individuals in the summary.

Value

a data.table containing the oldest families in the pedigree.