mergeAnchors {diffloop} | R Documentation

## Combine nearby anchors into one peak

### Description

`mergeAnchors` combines anchors that are within a user-defined radius

### Usage

    mergeAnchors(dlo, mergegap, selfloops = FALSE)

    ## S4 method for signature 'loops,numeric,missing'
    mergeAnchors(dlo, mergegap,
      selfloops = FALSE)

    ## S4 method for signature 'loops,numeric,logical'
    mergeAnchors(dlo, mergegap,
      selfloops = FALSE)

### Arguments

`dlo` | A loops object whose anchors will be merged
`mergegap` | An integer value of the bp between anchors to be merged
`selfloops` | A logical value to either retain (T) or remove (F) resulting self-loops after merging anchors

### Details

This function takes a loops object and combines nearby anchors, up to a distance specified by the `mergegap`. This likely will cause self loops to form (loop where the left and right anchor are the same), which can either be removed (by default) or retained with `selfloops`

### Value

A loops object

### Examples

    # Merge anchors within 1kb of each other, keeping self loops
    rda<-paste(system.file('rda',package='diffloop'),'loops.small.rda',sep='/')
    load(rda)
    m1kb <- mergeAnchors(loops.small, 1000, FALSE)

    # Merge anchors within 1kb of each other, removing self loops by default
    m1kb_unique <- mergeAnchors(loops.small, 1000)

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