Re: [R] Plink bed files

2008-07-25 Thread Robert Gentleman
Hi Frederico, You will likely have more luck asking about Bioinformatics related questions on the Bioconductor list, you might look at the rtracklayer package which can import bed files, if they really are bed files, and otherwise you would have to get the file format and write your own par

[R] Plink bed files

2008-07-25 Thread Federico Calboli
Hi All, does anyone know how to import binary .bed files generated by Plink (http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/plink/ ) into R? the Plink FAQ explains how to conver other types of files, not the .bed. Cheers, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Healt