heritability: Marker-Based Estimation of Heritability Using Individual Plant or Plot Data

Implements marker-based estimation of heritability when observations on genetically identical replicates are available. These can be either observations on individual plants or plot-level data in a field trial. Heritability can then be estimated using a mixed model for the individual plant or plot data. For comparison, also mixed-model based estimation using genotypic means and estimation of repeatability with ANOVA are implemented. For illustration the package contains several datasets for the model species Arabidopsis thaliana.

Version:	1.5
Depends:	R (≥ 4.0), MASS (≥ 3.1.20)
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown
Published:	2026-06-12
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.heritability
Author:	Willem Kruijer [aut], Ian White [ctb] (the internal pin function), Padraic Flood [dtc], Rik Kooke [dtc], Bart-Jan van Rossum [cre, aut]
Maintainer:	Bart-Jan van Rossum <bart-jan.vanrossum at wur.nl>
License:	GPL-3
NeedsCompilation:	no
In views:	Agriculture
CRAN checks:	heritability results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

heritability.html , heritability.pdf

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Package source:	heritability_1.5.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: heritability_1.4.zip, r-release: heritability_1.4.zip, r-oldrel: heritability_1.4.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): heritability_1.5.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): heritability_1.5.tgz, r-release (x86_64): heritability_1.5.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): heritability_1.5.tgz
Old sources:	heritability archive

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