Re: [R] Unexpected behaviour in reading genomic coordinate files of R-2.7.0

2008-05-29 Thread Michael Lawrence
This is not really addressing your problem, but I thought you might want to know that the rtracklayer package in Bioconductor already supports parsing BED files, as well as GFF and WIG. It's main purpose is to load the tracks into genome browsers, like UCSC. Michael On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:11 A

Re: [R] Unexpected behaviour in reading genomic coordinate files of R-2.7.0

2008-05-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
From the NEWS file for R-patched: o A field containing just a sign is no longer regarded as numeric (it was on all platforms in 2.7.0, but not on most in earlier versions of R). So the default behaviour has already been changed. The right way to overcome this was (as you

[R] Unexpected behaviour in reading genomic coordinate files of R-2.7.0

2008-05-28 Thread Margherita
Great R people, I have noticed a strange behaviour in read.delim() and friends in the R 2.7.0 version. I will describe you the problem and also the solution I already found, just to be sure it is an expected behaviour and also to tell people, who may experience the same difficulty, a way to ov