baseFrequency {R453Plus1Toolbox} | R Documentation

## Absolute And Relative Frequency Of The Four Bases.

### Description

This function returns the absolute and the relative frequency of the four bases (A, C, G, T).

### Usage

      baseFrequency(object)

### Arguments

`object` | An object of class DNAStringSet, ShortRead or SFFContainer.

### Details

This function makes use of the alphabetFrequency function from package `Biostrings`.

### Value

A data.frame with two columns containing the absolute and relative frequencies respectively and six rows, one for each of the four bases (A, C, G, T), one for other symbols contained in the reads and one summarizing the five aforementioned rows.

### Author(s)

Christian Ruckert

[Package R453Plus1Toolbox version 1.40.0 Index]