lawremi / rtracklayer

R interface to genome annotation files and the UCSC genome browser
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Lack of functionality to export narrowPeaks files #64

Open PeteHaitch opened 2 years ago

PeteHaitch commented 2 years ago

I noticed this while reviewing https://github.com/Bioconductor/Contributions/issues/2568 The lack of an export method for narrowPeaks files meant that the authors opted to roll their own, before eventually moving to plyranges:write_narrowpeaks().

Should the plyranges:write_narrowpeaks() functionality be migrated to rtracklayer or BiocIO (I'm not really sure of the intended relationship between these 2 package) and it become a wrapper (like the other plyranges::write_*() functions seem to be). Tagging @sa-lee who might know some background or further context on the issue?