importBed: Importing a Bed File.
In GenomicTools.fileHandler: File Handlers for Genomic Data Analysis

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples

This function imports a standard bed file

1	importBed(file, header = FALSE, sep = "\t")

`file`	Specifies the filename/path
`header`	Logical, is a header present
`sep`	Column separator

This function imports a standard bed-file into a data.frame. It is basically a convenience wrapper around read.table. However, if no header lines is given, this function automatically assigns the column names, as they are given in the bed-specification on the Ensembl page here: https://www.ensembl.org/info/website/upload/bed.html

A data.frame

Daniel Fischer

[exportBed], [read.table]

   
 # Define here the location on HDD for the example file
   fpath <- system.file("extdata","example.bed", package="GenomicTools.fileHandler")
 # Import the example bed file  
   bedFile <- importBed(file=fpath)