centromere: Coordinates of centromere

In SNPchip: Visualizations for copy number alterations

Description

Extracts coordinates of centromere for a particular chromosome

Usage

centromere(chromosome, build, verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

chromosome	Chromosome name. Several formats for specifying chromosome are allowed (see examples).
build	character string. Supported UCSC builds are ‘hg18’ and ‘hg19’.
verbose	Logical. Displays build used to annotate the centromere coordinates when TRUE

Value

integer: start and stop coordinates of centromere in basepairs

Author(s)

R. Scharpf

Examples

centromere(1, "hg18")
centromere("1", "hg18")
centromere("chr1", "hg18")
centromere(1, "hg19")
centromere("X", "hg18")

Example output

No methods found in "RSQLite" for requests: dbGetQuery
Welcome to SNPchip version 2.22.0
Warning message:
In read.dcf(con) :
  URL 'http://bioconductor.org/BiocInstaller.dcf': status was 'Couldn't resolve host name'
[1] 121147476 123387476
[1] 121147476 123387476
[1] 121147476 123387476
[1] 121535434 124535434
[1] 58465033 61465033

SNPchip documentation built on Oct. 31, 2019, 2:07 a.m.