RTLFile objects

Description

A RTLFile object is the base class for classes representing files accessible with rtracklayer. It wraps a resource (either a path, URL or connection).

Accessor Methods

In the code snippets below, x represents a RTLFile object.

path(x): Gets the path, as a character vector, to the resource represented by the RTLFile object, if possible.

resource(x): Gets the low-level resource, either a character vector (a path or URL) or a connection.

Author(s)

Michael Lawrence

See Also

Implementing classes include: BigWigFile, TwoBitFile, BEDFile, GFFFile, and WIGFile.