fillGroupMembersWithSexRatio

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

candidates

list initialized and ready to receive groups with the
desired sex ratios that are created within this function

groupMembers

is a list <code>numGp</code> long with each member an integer
vector of <code>1:numGp</code>.

grpNum

list of animals and those animals who are related above a
threshold value.

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

integer value indicating the number of groups that should be
formed from the list of IDs. Default is 1.

numGp

numeric value indicating the ratio of females to males x
from 0.5 to 20 by increments of 0.5.

sexRatio

The sex ratio is the ratio of females to males.

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.

fillGroupMembersWithSexRatio: Forms breeding group(s) with an effort to match a specified sex ratio

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