write.bed {KRIS} | R Documentation |
Write a SNP object to the files in the binary PLINK format. For more information about the binary PLINK format, please check in the manual of PLINK.
write.bed(object, file)
object |
An object of SNP is a list consisting of 3 matrices, see the Details section for more details. |
file |
A prefix of output files for BED, BIM and FAM to be saved. |
The object
should contain:
$snp
is a SNP matrix from BED file.
$snp.info
is a data.frame of SNP information from BIM file.
$ind.info
is a data.frame of individual information from FAM file.
For more details about the binary PLINK format, please check http://zzz.bwh.harvard.edu/plink/binary.shtml
NULL
.
#Load example data
data(example_SNP)
#Save 'simsnp' to the file as defined in 'save.file'
save.file <- file.path(tempdir(),"new_SNP")
write.bed(simsnp , save.file)