readGenes.ped          package:GeneticsBase          R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Function to read pedigree file format

_U_s_a_g_e:

     readGenes.ped(filename, columns = c("family", "pid", "father", "mother", "sex"), 
                   phase = list(FALSE), quiet = FALSE, missingval = c(0), ...)
     readGenes.hapmap.ped(filename, ...)
     readGenes.fbat.ped(filename, ...)
     readGenes.pbat.ped(filename, ...)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

filename: Name of the file in which data is stored 

 columns: Name of the columns in the pedigree file - by default points
          to "family", "pid", "father", "mother", "sex" 

   phase: 1. Yes/No for all (logical scalar) 2. Yes/No for each Marker
          (logical vector) 3. phaseObject (TBD): observation by marker
          by phase probabilities + definitions of contigs + probability
          of contigs 

   quiet: Logical: whether the progress of reading the file should be
          displayed.

missingval: Missing values (if any) to obtain missingCodes

     ...: Additional arguments to function read.table

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Gregory R. Warnes warnes@bst.rochester.edu and Nitin Jain
     nitin.jain@pfizer.com

