Get information from UCSC about the chromosomes passed in

Download information about each of the chromosomes passed in, most importantly the size.

get_chr_info(chrs, genome)

Arguments

chrs	chromosomes to look up (must match UCSC format)
genome	the UCSC genome to look at see https://genome.ucsc.edu/.

Value

a dataframe with data on the passed in chromosomes

Examples

eg_info <- get_chr_info(chrs = c("chr21", "chr22"), genome = "hg38")

eg_info
#>   chrom     size assembled circular
#> 1 chr21 46709983      TRUE    FALSE
#> 2 chr22 50818468      TRUE    FALSE