Opening BGEN files in R

Question

[dreamweaver]

I am looking for an R package to open BGEN files (Binary GEN file format), is there any such thing I could use or should I just convert the BGEN file to GEN file?

Answer 1

[gavinband]

This is an old question, but as of 2017 there's an R package for this.

Best, g.

Answer 2

[Florian Privé (privefl)]

You can use R package bigsnpr for this (disclaimer: I'm the author). See https://privefl.github.io/bigsnpr/reference/snp_readBGEN.html.