testPairedEndBam:
Quickly test if a BAM file has paired end reads
Description
Iterate through a BAM file until a paired-end read is encountered or
the end of file is reached; report the occurrence of paired-end
reads to the user.
Usage
testPairedEndBam(file, index=file, ...)
Arguments
file
character(1) BAM file name, or a BamFile
instance. Open BamFiles are closed; their yield size is
respected when iterating through the file.
index
(optional) character(1) name of the index file of the
'BAM' file being processed; this is given without the
'.bai' extension.
...
Additional arguments, currently unused.
Value
A logical vector of length 1 containing TRUE is returned if BAM file
contained paired end reads, FALSE otherwise.