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 mSLCA in R
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 All rights reserved to SHINYA, TOQUE, and Kokuvo
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 first written on 30 Jun 2007 by SHINYA
 last modified on 02 Nov. 2008 by TOQUE
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mSLCA.r is a R script that analyses full-sib structures of genetic
polymorphic data based on the mSLCA algorithm (Kokuvo et al. 2007
Env. Entomol. 36(6): 1523-1528).  This R script relies on the MASS
library, so you should install the MASS library beforehand.

     Assume that you have a data file named "YourData."  The data file
should consist of lines each of which contains an individual ID
followed by genotypes for examined loci.  Lines starts with '#' are
taken as comment lines.

     Put mSLCA.r in the same directory where you put the YourData
file.  mSLCA.r should be used in a batch mode, and hence try the
following in your command line;

    R --vanilla --slave --args YourData < mSLCA.r

Then you will get "result-YourData" as a resultant output file. 

     This script works fine under Mac OS X (10.4 and 10.5) with R
2.5.0 and 2.6.0, but we believe that it must work w/o any problems in
other UNIX environments, such as Linux and FreeBSD, and also hope to
work in the Windows environment.

     All questions and comments should be send to TOQUE
(toque@ies.life.tsukuba.ac.jp).  

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README: This file
mSLCA.r: the R script for SLCA algorithm
TORAall-6loc.txt, mpK5loc.txt: sample data files
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