character, path to PED file containing haplotype
data. Attention! filename should contain path to <file>.ped
with full file name. For example ../mydata/inputplink.ped
map
object, data.frame contains 3 columns: rsID, chromosome,
position in bp as output by e.g. readMapFile.
chr
character, chromosome number (basically from 1 to 22 as used by
Plink),
on which the region of interest is located
startpos
numeric, start position (in bp, base pairs) of the
region of interest (default: 0)
endpos
numeric, end position (in bp, base pairs) of the
region of interest (default: 0)
Value
matrix object containing the haplotypes selected by the
region of interest
providing 
.