productSelCritBLUP function

function to select parents among individuals with phenotypes, assuming individual effects are IID

productSelCritBLUP(records, candidates, bsp, SP)

Arguments

records	The breeding program records object. See fillPipeline for details
candidates	Character vector of ids of the candidates to be parents
bsp	The breeding scheme parameter list
SP	The AlphaSimR SimParam object (not used, here for uniformity)

Value

An IID BLUP of the trait of the candidates

Details

Accesses all individuals in records to pick the highest among candidates. If candidates do not have records, a random sample is returned