importBam {trackViewer} | R Documentation

## Reading data from a BAM file

### Description

Read a `track` object from a BAM file

### Usage

    importBam(file, file2, ranges = GRanges(), pairs = FALSE)

### Arguments

`file` | The path to the BAM file to read.
`file2` | The path to the second BAM file to read.
`ranges` | An object of `GRanges` to indicate the range to be imported
`pairs` | logical object to indicate the BAM is paired or not. See `readGAlignments`

### Value

a `track` object

### See Also

See Also as `importScore`, `track`, `viewTracks`

### Examples

    bamfile <- system.file("extdata", "ex1.bam", package="Rsamtools",
    mustWork=TRUE)
    dat <- importBam(file=bamfile, ranges=GRanges("seq1", IRanges(1, 50), strand="+"))

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