addGroupOfUnusedAnimals

list of groups of animals in the form of a vector
of animal Ids.

savedGroupMembers

character vector of IDs of the animals available for
use in the group.

candidates

dataframe that is the `Pedigree`. It contains pedigree
information including the IDs listed in <code>candidates</code>.

integer value indicating the minimum age to consider in group
formation. Pairwise kinships involving an animal of this age or younger will
 be ignored. Default is 1 year.

minAge

logical variable when set to <code>TRUE</code>, the formed groups
have a single male at least <code>minAge</code> old.

harem

addGroupOfUnusedAnimals adds a group to the saved groups if needed

Provides genetic tools for colony management and is a derivation
of the work in Amanda Vinson and Michael J Raboin (2015)
<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4671785/> "A Practical
Approach for Designing Breeding Groups to Maximize Genetic Diversity in a
Large Colony of Captive Rhesus Macaques ('Macaca' 'mulatto')".
It provides a 'Shiny' application with an exposed API.
The application supports five groups of functions:
(1) Quality control of studbooks contained in text files or 'Excel'
workbooks and of pedigrees within 'LabKey' Electronic Health Records
(EHR);
(2) Creation of pedigrees from a list of animals using the 'LabKey' EHR
integration;
(3) Creation and display of an age by sex pyramid plot of the living
animals within the designated pedigree;
(4) Generation of genetic value analysis reports; and
(5) Creation of potential breeding groups with and without proscribed sex
ratios and defined maximum kinships.

addGroupOfUnusedAnimals: addGroupOfUnusedAnimals adds a group to the saved groups if needed

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