region_filter {methrix} | R Documentation

## Filter matrices by region

### Description

Filter matrices by region

### Usage

    region_filter(m, regions, type = "within")

### Arguments

`m` | `methrix` object
`regions` | genomic regions to filter-out. Could be a data.table with 3 columns (chr, start, end) or a `GenomicRanges` object
`type` | defines the type of the overlap of the CpG sites with the target regions. Default value is 'within'. For detailed description, see the `foverlaps` function of the `data.table` package.

### Details

Takes `methrix` object and filters CpGs based on supplied regions in data.table or GRanges format

### Value

An object of class `methrix`

### Examples

    data('methrix_data')
    region_filter(m = methrix_data,
    regions = data.table(chr = 'chr21', start = 27867971, end =  27868103))

[Package methrix version 1.6.0 Index]