Hello, Could someone please tell me how to use the the Dodecad program for windows, it's says unzip your file to a working directory, I don't get what it is talking about, I just can't seem to get the program to work, could someone give me some instructions that are easy to understand. Thank you aaliy06
If you need to unzip any files you can download this user-friendly software
here. Just install and drag any zipped files over it to have them uncompressed. Go to documents in windows and create a file named DIYDOD. Save all your admixture calculator files in this folder. Then save your 23andme or ftdna data file to this folder. Everything should be in the same file location, namely the file that you created, named DIYDOD, in windows documents. You need to download the R console software
here. You will enter your commands into this console once you have installed it. Now you are ready to enter the following four commands:
setwd('DIYDOD') This command tells the program where to look for all the files, namely the DIYDOD file created in windows Documents.
source('standardize.r') This command standardizes the data preparing it for the analysis.
standardize('???.csv', company='ftdna') This command tells the program the name of your data file and the company where you tested.
system('DIYDodecadWin dv3.par') This is the final command. Wait a few minutes for your admixture results to appear. If in future you would like to use a different calculator just add the new calculator's name in place of dv3 (eg. euro7) and download the (eg. euro7) files to your DIYDOD file in documents. Your final command for the different calculators will look like this:
system('DIYDodecadWin euro7.par') For the Euro7 calculator.
system('DIYDodecadWin eurasia7.par') For the Eurasia7 calculator.
system('DIYDodecadWin africa9.par') For the Africa9 calculator.