rvcetools

Tools to work with results from variance components estimation

Installation

The package can only be installed from GitHub using

# check whether devtools are available
# if (!'devtools' %in% installed.packages()) install.packages('devtools')
# install the package
devtools::install_github(repo = 'pvrqualitasag/rvcetools')

GitHub Repository

The repository on GitHub is available at: https://github.com/pvrqualitasag/rvcetools

Background

One of the first steps in the development of a new genetic analysis routine for a new trait is the estimation of variance components. This is done using specialised software programs. Most of these programs do not provide a lot of functionality related to post-processing results such as comparing results of different estimation runs or displaying results graphically. These post-processing tasks are the main goal of this package.

Goal

In the current version, analysis results are read from a csv-file. The results can be converted into variance-covariance matrices for each random effect. The variance-covariance matrices can be bent using different approaches.

Further Information

Some basic information can be obtained from Getting Started article. The statements how to create some basic plots are shown in the article plot_vce.