write_bigwig {plyranges} | R Documentation

## Write a BigWig file

### Description

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

### Usage

    write_bigwig(x, file)

### Arguments

`x` | A GRanges object
`file` | File name, URL or connection specifying a file to write x to. Compressed files with extensions such as '.gz' are handled automatically.

### Value

The write functions return a BigWigFile invisibly

### See Also

`rtracklayer::BigWigFile()`

### Examples

    ## Not run:
     if (.Platform$OS.type != "windows") {
      test_path <- system.file("tests", package = "rtracklayer")
      bw_file <- file.path(test_path, "test.bw")
      gr <- read_bigwig(bw_file)
      gr
      bw_out <- file.path(tempdir(), "test_out.bw")
      write_bigwig(gr ,bw_out)
      read_bigwig(bw_out)
     }

    ## End(Not run)

[Package plyranges version 1.4.4 Index]