isFounder {GeneticsPed} | R Documentation

## Founder and non-founder individuals in the pedigree

### Description

`isFounder` classifies individuals in the pedigree as founders (base) or non-founders (non-base individuals).

### Usage

      isFounder(x, col=attr(x, ".ascendant"))

### Arguments

`x` | pedigree object
`col` | character, which columns should be checked, see examples

### Details

By definition founders do not have any known ascendants, while the opossite is the case for non-founders i.e. they have at least one known ascendant.

FIXME: any relation with founderGeneSet in GeneticsBase

### Value

Boolean vector.

### Author(s)

Gregor Gorjanc

### See Also

`Pedigree`

### Examples

      ped <- generatePedigree(nId=5)
      isFounder(ped)
      ## Based only on fathers
      isFounder(ped, col=c("father"))
      ## Works also only on a part of a pedigree
      isFounder(ped[1:5, ])

[Package GeneticsPed version 1.46.0 Index]