write.bed {KRIS}

Write a list of SNP object to the binary PLINK format (BED, BIM, and FAM)

Description

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.

Usage

write.bed(object, file)

Arguments

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.

Details

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

Value

NULL.

See Also

read.bed

Examples

#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)