[R] Packages for Animal Models & QG analyses

[Simon Blomberg]

I don't think lme4 can handle user-specified correlation structures for
the residuals (yet), which are necessary for animal models.

Cheers,

Simon.

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 07:50 +1000, David Duffy wrote:
> Deepa Senapathi asked:
> > 
> > I am looking to do some quantitative genetic analyses using animal models
> > and was wondering if someone could suggest an appropriate package in R.  It
> > would help if it was similar to the ASReml genetic analyses software.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Deepa Senapathi
> > 
> > Deepa Senapathi
> > Centre for Agri-Environmental Research (CAER)
> > School of Agriculture, Policy & Developement.
> > University of Reading
> > Earley Gate, Whiteknights Road,
> > Reading RG6 6AR.
> > Tel: +44 (0) 118 378  5467
> 
> See the R Genetics Task View.  I think kinship (which uses lme) and 
> perhaps regress packages.  For data amenable to an ANOVA/hierarchical 
> setup then lme4 as well (which does GLMMs nicely).  Have you tried Wombat 
> (non-R)?
> 
> David Duffy.
> 
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