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Read UCSC chromosome sizes

Source: R/genomeAnnotations.R
read_ucsc_chrom_sizes.Rd

Read chromosome sizes from UCSC and return as a tibble with one row per chromosome. The underlying data is pulled from here: https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html

Usage

read_ucsc_chrom_sizes(
  dir,
  genome = c("hg38", "mm39", "mm10", "mm9", "hg19"),
  keep_chromosomes = "chr[0-9]+|chrX|chrY",
  timeout = 300
)