On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Ivan Gregoretti <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Bioc team,
>
> Would it be possible to improve the efficiency of import()?
>
> 1) perhaps reading data by chunks.
>
> 2) perhaps reading in only selected fields such as strand or score.
>
>
Both of these are good ideas and are on the TODO list. The second one would
be simpler than the first. I could see implementing the chunked reading by
having the user pass a block size and a callback.

Michael

The latest improvement allowing direct import()ing into a GRanges
> object is excellent. No suprisingly, I am back for more!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ivan
>
> Ivan Gregoretti, PhD
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> National Institutes of Health
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