plyranges (version 1.9.3)

read_wig: Read a WIG file

Description

This is a lightweight wrapper to the import family of functions defined in rtracklayer.

Usage

read_wig(file, genome_info = NULL, overlap_ranges = NULL)

Arguments

file

A path to a file or a connection.

genome_info

An optional character string or a Ranges object that contains information about the genome build. For example the USSC identifier "hg19" will add build information to the returned GRanges.

overlap_ranges

An optional Ranges object. Only the intervals in the file that overlap the Ranges will be returned.

Value

A GRanges object

A GRanges object

See Also

rtracklayer::WIGFile()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
test_path <- system.file("tests", package = "rtracklayer")
test_wig <- file.path(test_path, "step.wig")
gr <- read_wig(test_wig)
gr
gr <- read_wig(test_wig, genome_info = "hg19")
# }