addPointsOfInterest {Scale4C} | R Documentation

## Add points of interest to a `Scale4C` object

### Description

The function `addPointsOfInterest` adds marker points to a `Scale4C` object, which are subsequently used to mark points of interest in created plots.

### Usage

    addPointsOfInterest(data, poi)

### Arguments

`data` | Scale4C object the points are to be added to
`poi` | Points of interest data, in a GRanges object. Important: column names must be specified and include 'colour' and 'name' for each point of interest with appropriate values

### Details

The function `addPointsOfInterest` adds predefined points of interest to a `Scale4C` object. Each point of interest is defined by 'chr', 'start', 'end', 'colour', and 'name'. A bed file or text file can be used to store the information, however, column names have to be added before import. Other additional columns are ignored by the function. The function then converts the information to a GRanges object.

### Value

A data frame that contains the data for all points of interest

### Author(s)

Carolin Walter

### Examples

        # import provided point of interest example, and check if import was
        # successful
        data(liverData)
        poiFile <- system.file("extdata", "vp.txt", package="Scale4C")
        pointsOfInterest(liverData) <- addPointsOfInterest(liverData,
            read.csv(poiFile, sep = "\t", stringsAsFactor = FALSE))
        head(pointsOfInterest(liverData))

[Package Scale4C version 1.8.0 Index]