merge.gwaa.data {GenABEL}R Documentation

function to merge objects of gwaa.data-class

Description

function to merge two objects of gwaa.data-class

Usage

merge.gwaa.data(x, y, ... )

Arguments

x the first object of gwaa.data-class
y the second object of gwaa.data-class
... arguments passed to merge.snp.data

Details

This function calls merge.snp.data to merge gtdata slots of the incoming objects; the phenotypic data contained in phdata slots are merged using standard function for data frames with arguments by="id" and all=TRUE. The merged object is filtered and sorted according to order of ids presented in the merged snp.data object.

Value

Merged object of gwaa.data-class

Author(s)

Maksim Struchalin, Yurii Aulchenko

See Also

merge.snp.data, add.phdata

Examples

        data(srdta)
        x1 <- srdta[c(1,3,5,6),c(2,4,5,6)]
        x2 <- srdta[c(2,4,5,6),c(1,3,5,6)]
        x3 <- merge(x1,x2)
        x1
        as.character(x1)
        x2
        as.character(x2)
        x3
        as.character(x3)
        srdta[1:6,1:6]
        as.character(srdta[1:6,1:6])

[Package GenABEL version 1.4-2 Index]