readBigWig: readBigWig

In tdhock/PeakSegPipeline: Genome-Wide Peak Prediction Using Supervised Learning and Optimal Segmentation

Description

Read part of a bigWig file into R as a data.table (assumes bigWigToBedGraph is present on your PATH).

Usage

readBigWig(bigwig.file, 
    chrom = NULL, start = NULL, 
    end = NULL)

Arguments

bigwig.file	path or URL of bigwig file.
chrom	chromosome to read.
start	position before reading.
end	plain text file where coverage is saved before reading into R.

Value

data.table with columns chromStart chromEnd count.

Author(s)

Toby Dylan Hocking

tdhock/PeakSegPipeline documentation built on March 3, 2020, 1:35 a.m.