write_gff {plyranges} | R Documentation

## Write a GFF(123) file

### Description

This is a lightweight wrapper to the export family of functions defined in rtracklayer.

### Usage

    write_gff(x, file, index = FALSE)

    write_gff1(x, file, index = FALSE)

    write_gff2(x, file, index = FALSE)

    write_gff3(x, file, index = FALSE)

### Arguments

`x` | A GRanges object
`file` | Path or connection to write to
`index` | If TRUE the output file will be compressed and indexed using bgzf and tabix.

### Value

The write function returns a GFFFile object invisibly

### See Also

`rtracklayer::GFFFile()`

### Examples

    ## Not run:
     test_path <- system.file("tests", package = "rtracklayer")
     test_gff3 <- file.path(test_path, "genes.gff3")
     gr <- read_gff3(test_gff3)
     out_gff3 <- file.path(tempdir(), "test.gff3")
     write_gff3(gr, out_gff3)
     read_gff3(out_gff3)

    ## End(Not run)

[Package plyranges version 1.6.10 Index]