readBam {ssviz} | R Documentation |
Reads a bam file through RSamtools, and converts it into a data frame of class DataFrame
readBam(file_name, tags = character(0))
file_name |
Character string of bam file location |
tags |
Bam tags to import into the data frame. By default it only takes the standard values if none are given. |
This function formalizes what had been described in the RSamtools documentation and makes it easier to compute the downstream functions in this package.
Returns the bam file contents in a readable dataframe format.
Diana H.P. Low
RSamtools package
bam.files <- dir(system.file("extdata", package = "ssviz"), full = TRUE, patt = "bam$") ctrlbam <- readBam(bam.files[1])