zalpha

R package for the zalpha suite of selection statistics. This package allows the user to run a suite of selection statistics over genomic data. The aim is to identify regions of the genome which have experienced a selective sweep.

Installing

Version 0.1.0 is on CRAN.

To install this package from CRAN:

install.packages("zalpha")

To install the development version of this package from github:

1. Install the devtools package

install.packages("devtools")

2. Load the devtools package

library(devtools)

3. Install the zalpha package direct from Github using the install_github function

install_github("chorscroft/zalpha")

How to use the zalpha package

For a full explanation of how to use the zalpha package, please see the "zalpha" vignette.

vignette("zalpha")

If this does not work and you installed the packages directly from Github, try installing using the following code:

install_github("chorscroft/zalpha", build_vignettes=TRUE)  # might also have to include the option force=TRUE if the package is already installed

Authors

• Clare Horscroft

Acknowledgments

Guy Jacobs for the original development of the Zalpha statistics