getAncestors {ggenealogy}

Returns a list of the ancestors of a particular variety (if they exist)

Description

This function returns a list of the ancestors of the inputted variety within and including a given number of generations

Usage

getAncestors(v1, geneal, gen = 3)

Arguments

v1

the label of the vertex of interest (in character string format)

geneal

the full genealogy (in data frame format)

gen

the number of generations back to include as ancestors

References

Rutter L, VanderPlas S, Cook D, Graham MA (2019). ggenealogy: An R Package for Visualizing Genealogical Data. Journal of Statistical Software, 89(13), 1–31. doi:10.18637/jss.v089.i13

Examples

data(sbGeneal)
getParent("Essex", sbGeneal)
getAncestors("Essex", sbGeneal, 1)
getAncestors("Essex", sbGeneal, 5)