genDataLoad {Haplin}

Loading the data previously read in and saved by "genDataRead"

Description

This function loads the data from the saved .ffData and .RData files, and prepares the data to subsequent analysis.

Usage

genDataLoad(filename = stop("'filename' must be given!"), dir.in = ".")

Arguments

filename

The base of the filenames; i.e. if the data is saved in "my_data_gen.ffData", "my_data_gen.RData" and "my_data_cov.RData", then the 'filename' should be "my_data".

dir.in

The path to the directory where files were saved (defaults to the current directory).

Value

A list object with three elements:

• cov.data - a data.frame with covariate data (if available in the input file)

• gen.data - a list with chunks of the genetic data; the data is divided column-wise, using 10,000 columns per chunk; each element of this list is a ff matrix

• aux - a list with meta-data and important parameters.