Load GWAS Summary Statistics — load_gwas

Loads GWAS summary statistics from a file, supporting various formats. The function automatically detects common separators and handles standard GWAS file formats.

Usage

load_gwas_data(file_path, sep = "\t", header = TRUE, quote = "")

Arguments

file_path: Character. Path to the GWAS summary statistics file.
sep: Character. Field separator (default: "\t").
header: Logical. Whether file contains header row (default: TRUE).
quote: Character. Quote character (default: "").

Value

A data.table containing the GWAS summary statistics.

Examples

# \donttest{
# Load example data
file_path <- system.file("extdata", "example_gwas.tsv", package = "pleior")
if (file.exists(file_path)) {
    gwas_data <- load_gwas_data(file_path)
    head(gwas_data)
}
# }