Me personally, I have an unstrand() function lying around in a LOT of scripts, so in my opinion it would indeed be nice for this to be supported generically.
*He that would live in peace and at ease, * *Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.* Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack<http://archive.org/details/poorrichardsalma00franrich> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Michael Lawrence <lawrence.mich...@gene.com > wrote: > It is very common to want to order a GenomicRanges by *position* but not > strand. Would be nice to have an ignore.strand argument for ordering > GenomicRanges. I realize that this is not possible by the order generic. > But it would be possible for sort(). > > I also realize that someone could do this: > > gr2 <- gr > strand(gr2) <- "*" > gr[order(gr2)] > > But that is long-winded. Perhaps there could be an unstrand()? > > gr[order(unstrand(gr))] > > But this is still better: > > sort(gr, ignore.strand=TRUE) > > Sound like a good thing? > > Michael > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
