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GenABEL (version 1.8-0)

export.plink: 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.