Converts a DArT file (read via read.dart) into an genlight object adegenet.

utils.dart2genlight(
  dart,
  ind.metafile = NULL,
  covfilename = NULL,
  probar = TRUE,
  verbose = NULL
)

Arguments

dart

A dart object created via read.dart [required].

ind.metafile

Optional file in csv format with metadata for each individual (see details for explanation) [default NULL].

covfilename

Depreciated, use parameter ind.metafile.

probar

Show progress bar [default TRUE].

verbose

Verbosity: 0, silent or fatal errors; 1, begin and end; 2, progress log; 3, progress and results summary; 5, full report [default NULL].

Value

A genlight object. Including all available slots are filled. loc.names, ind.names, pop, lat, lon (if provided via the ind.metadata file)

Details

The ind.metadata file needs to have very specific headings. First a heading called id. Here the ids have to match the ids in the dartR object. The following column headings are optional. pop: specifies the population membership of each individual. lat and lon specify spatial coordinates (in decimal degrees WGS1984 format). Additional columns with individual metadata can be imported (e.g. age, gender).

Author

Custodian: Bernd Gruber (Post to https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dartr)