maxGap-method: Estimated max gaps
In biovizBase: Basic graphic utilities for visualization of genomic data.

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Compute an estimated max gap information, which could be used as max.gap argument in shringkageFun.

1 2	## S4 method for signature 'GenomicRanges' maxGap(obj, ratio = 0.0025)

`obj`	GenomicRanges object
`ratio`	Multiple by the range of the provided gaps as the max gap.

This function tries to estimate an appropriate max gap to be used for creating a shrinkage function.

A numeric value

Tengfei Yin

shrinkageFun

require(GenomicRanges)
gr1 <- GRanges("chr1", IRanges(start = c(100, 300, 600),
end = c(200, 400, 800)))
gr2 <- GRanges("chr1", IRanges(start = c(100, 350, 550),
end = c(220, 500, 900)))
gaps.gr <- intersect(gaps(gr1, start = min(start(gr1))),
gaps(gr2, start = min(start(gr2))))
shrink.fun <- shrinkageFun(gaps.gr, max.gap = maxGap(gaps.gr))
shrink.fun(gr1)
shrink.fun(gr2)