What is the best way to read PLINK .raw format files into R?

Question

[Mahan]

What is the best way to read PLINK .raw format files into R?

Answer 1

[Sam]

You can try data.table. However, if you wish to work with plink file in R, you might want to use dedicated packages such as bigsnpr or the one by plink's author: https://github.com/chrchang/plink-ng/tree/master/2.0/pgenlibr (not on CRAN)

[Mahan]

Thansk Sam. Let me try these.