annotatr_cache {annotatr} | R Documentation |
Code thanks to Martin Morgan. This is a global variable that will store custom annotations that a user reads in during a session in which annotatr is loaded.
annotatr_cache
An object of class list
of length 3.
An environment to contain custom annotations from read_annotations
.
# Example usage annotatr_cache$set("foo", 1:10) annotatr_cache$get("foo") # Read in a BED3 file as a custom annotation file = system.file('extdata', 'test_annotations_3.bed', package='annotatr') # The custom annotation is added to the annotatr_cache environment in this function read_annotations(con = file, name = 'test', genome = 'hg19') # The result of read_annotations() is not visible in .GlobalEnv, instead # need to use the get method print(annotatr_cache$get('hg19_custom_test')) # See what is in the annotatr_cache annotatr_cache$list_env()