convert.variants.to.numeric {DOQTL} | R Documentation

## convert.variants.to.numeric

### Description

Given a matrix or data frame with character ACGT SNP values, convert them to numeric values with the major allele coded as 0 and the minor allele as 1.

### Usage

    convert.variants.to.numeric(variants)

### Arguments

`variants` | Data frame with four header columns. The SNPs must be in ACGT format in columns 5 through ncol(snps).

### Details

This function is used before calling plot.alleles() to convert the SNPs into a numeric form suitable for plotting.

### Value

Data.frame of the same dimentions as the snps argument, but with the alleles converted to 0 or 1.

### Author(s)

Daniel Gatti

### Examples

      data(example.snps)
      numeric.snps = convert.variants.to.numeric(example.snps[1:100,])

[Package DOQTL version 1.16.2 Index]