RIPSeeker (version 1.12.0)

exportGRanges: Export GRanges object in a specified format

Description

A wrapper function of export with additional support for exporting tab-delimted format with no re-arrangement of the original GRanges output.

Usage

exportGRanges(gRanges, outfile, exportFormat)

Arguments

gRanges

GRanges object to export.

outfile

File path for output.

exportFormat

Desirable format including "txt" and other formats specified in export.

Value

• Output the text to the file stream defined in outfile.

References

Michael Lawrence, Vince Carey and Robert Gentleman. rtracklayer: R interface to genome browsers and their annotation tracks. R package version 1.16.3.

See Also

export

Examples

if(interactive()) { # need permission to write to the current dir
gr <-
    GRanges(seqnames =
            Rle(c("chr1", "chr2", "chr1", "chr3"), c(1, 3, 2, 4)),
            ranges =
            IRanges(1:10, width = 10:1, names = head(letters,10)),
            strand =
            Rle(strand(c("-", "+", "*", "+", "-")),
                c(1, 2, 2, 3, 2)),
            score = 1:10,
            GC = seq(1, 0, length=10))

	outfile <- paste(getwd(), "/gr.txt", sep="/")

	exportGRanges(gr, outfile=outfile, exportFormat="txt")
}