readCollection {LOLA} | R Documentation

## Given a bunch of region set files, read in all those flat (bed) files and create a GRangesList object holding all the region sets. This function is used by readRegionGRL to process annotation objects.

### Description

Given a bunch of region set files, read in all those flat (bed) files and create a GRangesList object holding all the region sets. This function is used by readRegionGRL to process annotation objects.

### Usage

    readCollection(filesToRead, limit = NULL)

### Arguments

`filesToRead` | a vector containing bed files
`limit` | for testing purposes, limit the number of files read. NULL for no limit (default).

### Value

A GRangesList with the GRanges in the filesToRead.

### Examples

    files = list.files(system.file("extdata", "hg19/ucsc_example/regions",
     package="LOLA"), pattern="*.bed")
    regionAnno = readCollection(files)

[Package LOLA version 1.18.1 Index]