"Relationship Inference with Familias and R"
This page contains information connected to the
book by Egeland, Kling,
and Mostad, available from Elsevier.
Please go to this site for free download of the program and documentation.
Examples and exercises are based on the programs Familias
(documentation),
FamLink (tutorial),
FamLinkX (tutorial) and
R Familias (manual).
The R library BookEKM (gz-format,, zip) contains functions and code for some examples and exercises in the book.
Several other R libraries, developed by others, all available from
cran, are also exemplified.
These include
disclap, disclapmix, DNAtools, identity, kinship2, and paramlink.
Please check web and help pages for further information.
Solutions for all exercises in the book are available
but only
selected exercises are freely available.
There are also video solutions and tutorials.
Some of the exercises require input files and these are available:
Ch2Input.zip,
Ch3Input.zip,
Ch4FamLinkInput.zip,
Ch4FamLinkXInput.zip.
Please check courses and workshops
for topics related to the book:
Book available from
Elsevier.
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Updated Oct 30 2020. You may send comments to thore.egeland@gmail.com
R Familias, relMix and fam2r
The code for the core functions of Familias has been released in an R package. The R library Familias is back on cran from Jan 10, 2024. The R library relMix, which uses R Familias, can be installed from https://github.com/gdorum/relMix. The R library fam2r, needed for conditional simulations in the DVI module of Windows Familias, can be installed as described here. To install R Familias (only once) and load the package, write, in R,
> install.packages("Familias")
> library(Familias)
Information and help about the package can then be reached with
> help("Familias")
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Updated 2024-02-07. You may send comments to thore.egeland@gmail.com