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Dear R helpers, I am trying to test for linkage disequilibrium (LD) in R between all pairs of loci. Importantly, my loci are microsatellites and have up to 30 alleles per locus. Do you know of any R packages that can either (1) calculate measures of LD directly or (2) test for the presence of LD within a statistical framework? Every package I have run across seems to be only able to handle biallelic (e.g., SNP) data. I have searched...

Dear list, I came across the following error for three of my newly written Rd-files: non-ASCII input and no declared encoding I can't make sense of this. Below I copied in one of the three files. Can anybody please tell me what's wrong with it? Thank you, Christian \name{tetragonula} \alias{tetragonula} \alias{tetragonula.coord} \docType{data} % \non_function{} \title{Microsatellite

Hello All, Once again thanks for all of the help to date. I am climbing my R learning curve. I've got a few more questions that I hope I can get some guidance on though. I am not sure whether the etiquette is to break up multiple questions or not but I'll keep them together here for now as it may help put the questions in context despite the fact that the post may get a little long.

Is there a package that will allow me to fit Brownian motion and Ornstein?Uhlenbeck models of evolution for discrete traits? I know that geiger and ouch have commands for fitting these models for continuous traits, but these aren't suitable for discrete trait evolution, correct? -- View this message in context:

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