R: Export GenABEL data in PLINK format

export.plink {GenABEL}

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Export GenABEL data in PLINK format

Description

Export GenABEL data in PLINK format. This function is a simple wrapper to the export.merlin function with specific arguments + few lines of code to export phenotypes

Usage

  export.plink(data, filebasename = "plink",
    phenotypes = "all", transpose = TRUE,
    export012na = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

`data`	GenABEL data object of 'gwaa.data'-class to be exported.
`filebasename`	base file name for exported data, extensions '.ped', '.map' and '.phe' (for phenotype file) are added for specific output files.
`phenotypes`	NULL (no phenotypes exported), "all" (default) for all phenotypes or a vector of character with names of phenotypes to be exported.
`transpose`	if TRUE (default), 'tped' files will be produced, else 'ped' files are produced.
`export012na`	if TRUE, export in numeric (0, 1, 2, NA) format, as opposed to ATGC format (default: FALSE).
`...`	arguments passed to `export.merlin`.

Author(s)

Yurii Aulchenko

[Package GenABEL version 1.8-0 Index]