String to GRanges

Source: R/utilities.R

[Deprecated]

StringToGRanges(regions, sep = c("-", "-"), ...)

Arguments

regions

Vector of genomic region strings

sep

Vector of separators to use for genomic string. First element is used to separate chromosome and coordinates, second separator is used to separate start and end coordinates.

...

Additional arguments passed to GenomicRanges::makeGRangesFromDataFrame()

Value

Returns a GRanges object

Details

Convert a genomic coordinate string to a GRanges object

Examples

regions <- c('chr1-1-10', 'chr2-12-3121')
StringToGRanges(regions = regions)
#> GRanges object with 2 ranges and 0 metadata columns:
#>       seqnames    ranges strand
#>          <Rle> <IRanges>  <Rle>
#>   [1]     chr1      1-10      *
#>   [2]     chr2   12-3121      *
#>   -------
#>   seqinfo: 2 sequences from an unspecified genome; no seqlengths