read.gtf: Reading GTF (General Transfer Format) Files
In HajkD/seqreadr: Read Biological Sequence File Formats

Description Usage Arguments Details Author(s) References Examples

This function reads a standard GTF file and stores it as data.frame object.

1	read.gtf(gtf.file, trackline = FALSE, sep = "\t")

`gtf.file`	path to the input GTF file.
`trackline`	is a trackline included in the GTF file passed to `gtf.file`. If yes, then the first line is skipped.
`sep`	separator for GTF file columns. Default for a standard GTF file format is `sep = "\t"`.

The GTF (General Transfer Format) specification allows to share sequence information in a standardized manner. The attributes column must be processed separately due to the lack of a clear specification.

Hajk-Georg Drost

http://www.ensembl.org/info/website/upload/gff.html

# location of the example gtf file
example.gtf <- system.file("example.gtf", package = "seqreadr")

# reading example gtf file
ex.gtf.df <- read.gtf(gtf.file = example.gtf)

# having a look at the output
ex.gtf.df