Write a list of SNP object to the binary PLINK format (BED, BIM, and FAM) — write.bed • KRIS

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)

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.

Value

NULL.

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

See also

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)