[Bioc-devel] as.character method for GenomicRanges?

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi Pete,

Excellent idea. That will make things like table() work out-of-the-box
on GenomicRanges objects. I'll add that.

Thanks,
H.


On 04/24/2015 09:43 AM, Peter Haverty wrote:
> Would people be interested in having this:
>
> setMethod("as.character", "GenomicRanges",
>            function(x) {
>                paste0(seqnames(x), ":", start(x), "-", end(x))
>            })
>
> ?
>
> I find myself doing that a lot to make unique names or for output that
> goes to collaborators.  I suppose we might want to tack on the strand if it
> isn't "*".  I have some code for going the other direction too, if there is
> interest.
>
>
>
> Pete
>
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