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