Find the order of Chromosome Names

Generate an ordered chromosome names from input. For human and other mammalian animals, numeric names (integers or Roman numbers) will go first followed by chromosome X, Y, and M. If all chromosome names are character only, they will be in alphabetical order.

Usage

RCircos.Get.Chromosome.Order(chromosomes=NULL)

Arguments

chromosomes

Character vector, names of chromosomes.

Value

Character vector, ordered chromosome name list.

Author

Henry Zhang

Examples

library(RCircos)
chromosomes <- paste0("chr", c(1:10, 21,22, 11:20, "X", "Y"))  
chromosomes <- RCircos.Get.Chromosome.Order(chromosomes)