read_phenotype: Read phenotype from .fam file

In psobczyk/geneSLOPE: Genome-Wide Association Study with SLOPE

Description

Reading phenotype data from file. It is assumed, that data is given in .fam file. In this format, first column is family id (FID), second is individual id (IID), third is Paternal individual ID (PAT), fourth is Maternal individual ID (MAT), fifth is SEX and sixth and last is PHENOTYPE. If file has only four columns, then it is assumed that PAT and MAT columns are missing. If there is only one column, then it is assumed that only phenotype is provided.

Usage

read_phenotype(filename, sep = " ", header = FALSE, stringAsFactors = FALSE)

Arguments

filename	character, name of file with phenotype
sep	character, field seperator in file
header	logical, does first row of file contain variables names
stringAsFactors	logical, should character vectors be converted to factors?

Value

object of class phenotypeData

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