/affinal_relatedness

R code to create affinal relatedness matrix

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affinal_relatedness

R code to create an affinal relatedness matrix.

The resulting adjacency matrix has values of 0.5 for spouses, 0.25 for children/parents-in-law, etc.

It draws on the kinship2 and igraph R packages.

It assumes as input:

  • a data frame (called "parents") with columns Ego, Father, Mother, Sex (here, missing info coded as 0)
  • a data frame (called "spouses") with columns Spouse1, Spouse2, and NotDivorced (this is an extra)

This was inspired by Ed Hagen's earlier work (see the Descent Shiny App).

Thanks also to Jonathan Cardoso Silva and others on Twitter for suggestions! This was something Elspeth Ready and I were working around for an earlier publication (see https://github.com/eapower/Kinship).