R/DelegatingGenomicRanges-class.R

In Bioconductor/GenomicRanges: Representation and manipulation of genomic intervals

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### DelegatingGenomicRanges objects
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### Virtual class that delegates GenomicRanges data access to a
### GenomicRanges delegate.
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setClass("DelegatingGenomicRanges",
         representation(delegate="GenomicRanges"),
         contains=c("GenomicRanges", "VIRTUAL"))

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### Slot getters and setters.
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setMethod("seqnames", "DelegatingGenomicRanges",
          function(x) seqnames(x@delegate))

setMethod("ranges", "DelegatingGenomicRanges",
          function(x, ...) ranges(x@delegate, ...))

setMethod("strand", "DelegatingGenomicRanges", function(x) strand(x@delegate))
setMethod("seqinfo", "DelegatingGenomicRanges", function(x) seqinfo(x@delegate))

setMethod("update", "DelegatingGenomicRanges", function (object, ...) {
  object@delegate <- update(object@delegate, ...)
  object
})