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genomation (version 1.4.2)

readBroadPeak: A function to read the Encode formatted broad peak file into a GRanges object

Description

A function to read the Encode formatted broad peak file into a GRanges object

Usage

readBroadPeak(file, track.line=FALSE)

Arguments

file
an absolute or relative path to a bed file formatted by the Encode broadPeak standard. The file can end in .gz, .bz2, .xz, or .zip and/or start with http:// or ftp://. If the file is not compressed it can also start with https:// or ftps://.
track.line
the number of track lines to skip, "auto" to detect them automatically or FALSE(default) if the bed file doesn't have track lines

Value

  • a GRanges object

Examples

Run this code
broad.peak.file = system.file('extdata',"ex.broadPeak", package='genomation')

broad.peak = readBroadPeak(broad.peak.file)
head(broad.peak)

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