plyranges (version 1.9.3)

remove_names: Tools for working with named Ranges

Description

Tools for working with named Ranges

Usage

remove_names(.data)
names_to_column(.data, var = "name")
id_to_column(.data, var = "id")

Arguments

.data

a Ranges object

var

Name of column to use for names

Value

Returns a Ranges object with empty names

Details

The function names_to_column() and id_to_column() always places var as the first column in mcols(.data), shifting all other columns to the left. The id_to_column() creates a column with sequential row identifiers starting at 1, it will also remove any existing names.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
ir <- IRanges::IRanges(start = 1:3, width = 4, names = c("a", "b", "c"))
remove_names(ir)
ir_noname <- names_to_column(ir)
ir_noname
ir_with_id <- id_to_column(ir)
ir_with_id
# }