[R-pkgs] kinship2

[Sinnwell, Jason P.]

Dear useRs:

Announcing the release of kinship2, version 1.2.1, to CRAN. 

kinship2 is a branch from the original kinship package with some key
updates for the pedigree and kinship functions, with some additional
functions that work with the pedigree object.

Highlights:
 * pedigree and pedigreeList objects implemented with S3 methods print
and "[,"
 * pedigree plotting routine re-written, now more robust
 * kinship matrices now implemented with Matrix package classes
 * utilities to trim the pedigree object with various criteria

A vignette is available with
vignette("pedigree")

For details and updates, see:
https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/kinship2/


Best,
Jason Sinnwell