Write a BigWig file — write_bigwig • plyranges

This is a lightweight wrapper to the export family of functions defined in rtracklayer.

write_bigwig(x, file)

Arguments

x: A GRanges object
file: File name, URL or connection specifying a file to write x to. Compressed files with extensions such as '.gz' are handled automatically.

Value

The write functions return a BigWigFile invisibly

See also

rtracklayer::BigWigFile()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
 if (.Platform$OS.type != "windows") {
  test_path <- system.file("tests", package = "rtracklayer")
  bw_file <- file.path(test_path, "test.bw")
  gr <- read_bigwig(bw_file)
  gr
  bw_out <- file.path(tempdir(), "test_out.bw")
  write_bigwig(gr ,bw_out)
  read_bigwig(bw_out)
 }
}