In my opinion, granges() is not very clear as to the intent. The mcols are
part of the GRanges, so why would calling granges() drop them? I think we
want something similar to unclass(), unname(), etc. This why I suggested
dropmcols().
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Tim Triche, Jr. <tim.tri...@gmail.com>wrote:
> That's exactly what I was after -- the generic is already defined, so why
> not use it?
>
> --t
>
> > On May 5, 2014, at 7:42 AM, Julian Gehring <julian.gehr...@embl.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >> On 05.05.2014 16:22, Martin Morgan wrote:
> >> generalize as setMcols, like setNames? setMcols(x, NULL)
> >
> > How about Tim's original suggestion, to add a 'granges' method that
> works on a 'GRanges' input? The current definition
> >
> > granges(x, use.mcols=FALSE, ...)
> >
> > seem suited for this.
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Julian
>
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