exportGRanges {RIPSeeker} | R Documentation

## Export GRanges object in a specified format

### Description

A wrapper function of `export` with additional support for exporting tab-delimted format with no re-arrangement of the original GRanges output.

### Usage

    exportGRanges(gRanges, outfile, exportFormat)

### Arguments

`gRanges` | `GRanges` object to export.
`outfile` | File path for output.
`exportFormat` | Desirable format including "txt" and other formats specified in `export`.

### Value

Output the text to the file stream defined in `outfile`.

### Note

The function is used in ripSeek to export desired format and can be used as general purpose function.

### Author(s)

Yue Li

### References

Michael Lawrence, Vince Carey and Robert Gentleman. rtracklayer: R interface to genome browsers and their annotation tracks. R package version 1.16.3.

### See Also

`export`

### Examples

    if(interactive()) { # need permission to write to the current dir
    gr <-
        GRanges(seqnames =
                Rle(c("chr1", "chr2", "chr1", "chr3"), c(1, 3, 2, 4)),
                ranges =
                IRanges(1:10, width = 10:1, names = head(letters,10)),
                strand =
                Rle(strand(c("-", "+", "*", "+", "-")),
                    c(1, 2, 2, 3, 2)),
                score = 1:10,
                GC = seq(1, 0, length=10))

    	outfile <- paste(getwd(), "/gr.txt", sep="/")

    	exportGRanges(gr, outfile=outfile, exportFormat="txt")
    }

[Package RIPSeeker version 1.22.0 Index]