uniting methylRawDB objects with regional resolution and setting destrand=TRUE deletes the original objects

[alexg9010]

https://github.com/al2na/methylKit/blob/4735b6fca820c8bda1f84b03e12d19bada2df1fc/R/methylDBFunctions.R#L747

[alexg9010]

library(methylKit)
data(methylKit)

mdb <- makeMethylDB(methylRawList.obj)     

# works for "base" -resolution
unite(mdb,destrand=TRUE)
mdb # is fine

# breaks for "region" -resolution
mdbt <- tileMethylCounts(mdb) 
# works
unite(mdbt)    

# deletes tabix files of mdbt
unite(mdbt,destrand=TRUE)    

mdbt # breaks !!