gffRead {ballgown} | R Documentation

## read in GTF/GFF file as a data frame

### Description

read in GTF/GFF file as a data frame

### Usage

    gffRead(gffFile, nrows = -1, verbose = FALSE)

### Arguments

`gffFile` | name of GTF/GFF on disk
`nrows` | number of rows to read in (default -1, which means read all rows)
`verbose` | if TRUE, print status info at beginning and end of file read. Default FALSE.

### Value

data frame representing the GTF/GFF file

### Author(s)

Kasper Hansen

### See Also

`getAttributeField` to extract data from "attributes" column; http://useast.ensembl.org/info/website/upload/gff.html for more information on the GTF/GFF file format.

### Examples

    gtfPath = system.file('extdata', 'annot.gtf.gz', package='ballgown')
    annot = gffRead(gtfPath)

[Package ballgown version 2.18.0 Index]