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Package: MRTool 0.0.0.9000

Anne-Sophie Kieslinger

MRTool: Simulating Data for Mendelian Randomization Scenarios Based on Genotype Data

This package can be used to simulate data in R for Mendelian Randomization scenarios including confounder, exposure and outcome. Recommended MR package is MendelianRandomization.

Authors:Anne-Sophie Kieslinger [aut, cre], Carl Beuchel [aut]

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# Install 'MRTool' in R:

install.packages('MRTool', repos = c('https://mrcieu.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/remlapmot/mrtool/issues

On CRAN:

3.00 score 7 exports 88 dependencies

Last updated from:4af89980d5 (on suggestions). Checks:7 WARNING, 2 OK. Indexed: no.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	WARNING	138
source / vignettes	OK	224
linux-release-x86_64	WARNING	136
macos-release-arm64	WARNING	102
macos-oldrel-arm64	WARNING	109
windows-devel	WARNING	79
windows-release	WARNING	116
windows-oldrel	WARNING	95
wasm-release	OK	125

Exports:cal_betas CreateMRInputObject get_corrs SetMRParams sim_and_mr SimulateMRData transform_results

Dependencies:arrangements askpass backports base64enc broom bslib cachem cli codetools cpp11 crosstalk curl data.table DEoptimR digest dplyr evaluate farver fastmap fontawesome foreach fs generics ggplot2 glmnet glue gmp gtable highr htmltools htmlwidgets httr isoband iterators iterpc jquerylib jsonlite knitr labeling later lattice lazyeval lifecycle magrittr MASS Matrix MatrixModels memoise MendelianRandomization mime numDeriv openssl otel pillar pkgconfig plotly promises purrr quantreg R6 rappdirs RColorBrewer Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppEigen rjson rlang rmarkdown robustbase S7 sass scales shape SparseM stringi stringr survival sys tibble tidyr tidyselect tinytex utf8 vctrs viridisLite withr xfun yaml

MRTool

Anne-Sophie Kieslinger

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Last update: 2020-04-25
Started: 2020-04-25

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Help page	Topics
calculates betacoefficients from explained variances	cal_betas
Create MRInput Object	CreateMRInputObject
calculate correlation for a datatable of snps	get_corrs
MRTool: A package to simulate data for mendelian randomization	MRTool-package MRTool
Set MR Parameters (betacoefficients)	SetMRParams
Simulate U,X and Y and run MR on them	sim_and_mr
Simulate MR Data	SimulateMRData
Transform result of iterations of simulation and MR	transform_results