Reads a bigwig file and returns it as a data frame.

Reads a bigwig file and returns it as a data frame.

bb_readBigwig(
  filename,
  params = NULL,
  chrom = NULL,
  chromstart = 1,
  chromend = .Machine$integer.max,
  strand = "*"
)

Arguments

filename

bigwig filename
params

an optional "bb_params" object space containing relevant function parameters
chrom

chromosome as a string, e.g. "chr3"
chromstart

first base number to consider
chromend

last base number to consider
strand

strand, i.e. '+', '-', or '*'

Value

Function will return a 6-column dataframe of bigwig information.