Pedigree Diagrams

Show family relationships and more

Preface

Pedigree diagrams show the relationships between people (or other sexually reproducing organisms). This kind of diagram is a basic tool used to visualize many aspects of a family structure.

The goal of the tiny_pedigree function is to provide a convenient way to generate a basic pedigree diagram. This capability is intended to fit inside the intelligent document framework. This function is found in the tinypedigree package.

The tiny_pedigree function is a wrapper for the pedigree function found in the large kinship2 package. This means that kinship2 will need to be installed and placed in a library.

The table-oriented input strategy, with friendly column names, should make the use of tiny_pedigree fairly straightforward, even for users who only need this graphic tool occasionally.