mQTL.NMR (version 1.6.0)

format_mQTL: Routine to reformat the data of animal crosses into the required format to perform mQTL mapping

Description

This function enables to reformat data into the proper format. The user should provides in input metabolomic file, Genotype file and a file containing sex and pgm (parental grandmother).

Usage

format_mQTL(datafile, genofile, physdat, outdat, outgeno)

Arguments

datafile

metabolomic data file in text format

genofile

genotype data file in text format

physdat

a file containing sex and pgm in text format

outdat

Output data file with formatted phenotype data (metabolomic data + sex + pgm) in the format csvs

outgeno

Output data file with formatted genotype data in the csvs format

Value

formatted phenotype and genotype data files (in format csvs) are written to the user working directory (it is therefore preferable that the user create a new directory to be used throughout the study)

See Also

align_mQTL,

Examples

# Download data files
load_datafiles()

# Format data

format_mQTL(phenofile,genofile,physiodat,cleandat,cleangen)