[BioC] GenomicRanges::nearest (especially follow)

[Valerie Obenchain]

On 10/17/2012 04:02 PM, Valerie Obenchain wrote:
> Thanks Herve for taking care of compare().
>
> Harris, you mentioned a 'signed' option for distance(). Tim is working 
> on a patch for distanceToNearest() for GRanges that will return signed 
> distances. The better place to make this change would be at the 
> distance() level. 

To be clear, I meant modify distance,Ranges,Ranges then propagate to 
distance,GenomicRanges,GenomicRanges.

Valerie