Imports a track from another assembly

Imports a track from another assembly.

gtrack.liftover(
  track = NULL,
  description = NULL,
  src.track.dir = NULL,
  chain = NULL
)

Arguments

track

name of a created track

description

a character string description

src.track.dir

path to the directory of the source track

chain

name of chain file or data frame as returned by 'gintervals.load_chain'

Value

None.

Details

This function imports a track located in 'src.track.dir' of another assembly to the current database. Chain file instructs how the conversion of coordinates should be done. It can be either a name of a chain file or a data frame in the same format as returned by 'gintervals.load_chain' function. The name of the newly created track is specified by 'track' argument and 'description' is added as a track attribute.

See also

gintervals.load_chain, gintervals.liftover