Read PLINK binary data — readPLINK • statgenGWAS

Read PLINK binary data and save in gData format. This is a wrapper around read.plink in the Bioconductor package snpStats. This package needs to be installed for the function to work.

Usage

readPLINK(bed, bim, fam, ...)

Arguments

bed: The name of the file containing the packed binary SNP genotype data. It should have the extension .bed; If it doesn't, then this extension will be appended.
bim: The file containing the SNP descriptions. If not specified bed is used with its file extension replaced by bim.
fam: The file containing subject (and, possibly, family) identifiers. This is basically a tab-delimited "pedfile". If not specified bed is used with its file extension replaced by fam.
...: Further arguments passed to read.plink.

Value

An object of class gData.