read_matrix {universalmotif} | R Documentation

## Import motifs from raw matrices.

### Description

Import simply formatted motifs.

### Usage

    read_matrix(file, skip = 0, type, positions = "columns",
      alphabet = "DNA", sep = "", headers = TRUE, rownames = FALSE)

### Arguments

`file` | `character(1)` File name.
`skip` | `numeric(1)` If not zero, will skip however many desired lines in the file before starting to read.
`type` | `character(1)` One of `c('PCM', 'PPM', 'PWM', 'ICM')`. If missing will try and guess which one.
`positions` | `character(1)` One of `c('columns', 'rows')`. Indicate whether each position within a motif is represented as a row or a column in the file.
`alphabet` | `character(1)` One of `c('DNA', 'RNA', 'AA')`, or a string of letters.
`sep` | `character(1)` Indicates how individual motifs are seperated.
`headers` | `logical(1)`, `character(1)` Indicating if and how to read names.
`rownames` | `logical(1)` Are there alphabet letters present as rownames?

### Value

`list` universalmotif objects.

### Author(s)

Benjamin Jean-Marie Tremblay, b2tremblay@uwaterloo.ca

### See Also

Other read_motifs: `read_cisbp`, `read_homer`, `read_jaspar`, `read_meme`, `read_motifs`, `read_transfac`, `read_uniprobe`

### Examples

       hocomoco <- system.file("extdata", "hocomoco.txt", package = "universalmotif")
       hocomoco <- read_matrix(hocomoco, headers = ">", positions = "rows")

[Package universalmotif version 1.0.22 Index]