https://github.com/willekens/families

Family relationships in a virtual population
https://github.com/willekens/families

demography families kinship simulation

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Family relationships in a virtual population

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/willekens/families
• Owner: willekens
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2022-06-09T19:20:04.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-08-03T09:48:46.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-12-09T11:51:02.714Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: demography, families, kinship, simulation
• Language: R
• Homepage:
• Size: 3.55 MB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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*Families* identifies family and kin relationships in a virtual population

generated by *VirtualPop*. Individual identification

numbers (IDs) are the keys to retrieve information on individuals and

relationships. The package includes a few basic functions to navigate

the virtual population database. They retrieve information on mothers,

fathers, partners, children, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins. They

also retrieve information on grandparents, great-grandparents and their

offspring. The individual information is limited to date of birth, date

of death, and IDs of partner, mother, father and children.

The multi-generation virtual population offers opportunities to map

social (family) networks and to adopt different perspectives on

population, including the perspective of a child or an elderly person.

The vignette *Families\_Virtual* describes

the package and illustrates its use. HTML and pdf versions of the

vignette are in folder *Families/doc*.

To install the package from CRAN, type in the R window:

        install.packages ("Families")

To install the package from GitHub, use:

        library(devtools)

        devtools::install_github("willekens/Families")