This function is used to read a GTF file.
Usage
read_gtf(path = NULL, column_names = NULL, deduplicate_gene_id = TRUE)
Arguments
- path
CHARACTER : pathway to gtf file (no default)
- column_names
CHARACTER : an optional vector specifying the columns to keep from @elementMetadata (default to NULL)
- deduplicate_gene_id
LOGICAL : whether to remove duplicated rows. This could be useful if only gene id are required (default to TRUE)
Value
A dataframe containing columns from @elementMetadata