You'll need to use another package I wrote, BGmisc. It has a gedcom reader: r-computing-lab.github.io/BGmisc/refer... See this script for an example of how to clean gedcom data github.com/R-Computing-...
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Read a GEDCOM File — readGedcom
This function ingests a GEDCOM genealogy file, identifies each individual described
in the file, and parses their information into a structured data frame. It supports
optional post-processing to enri...