cast start and end column to integer64 to prevent scientific notation

loosolab · Jan 12, 2019 · b65dc90 · b65dc90
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diff --git a/bin/2.1_clustering/reduce_sequence.R b/bin/2.1_clustering/reduce_sequence.R
@@ -231,6 +231,10 @@ reduce_sequence <- function(input, kmer = 10, motif = 10, output = "reduced.bed"
     names(merged) <- col_names
   }
 
+  # cast start and end column to integer64 to prevent scientific notation e.g. 1e+10
+  # start and end are assumed to be at position 2 and 3
+  merged[, c(2, 3) := lapply(.SD, bit64::as.integer64), SDcols = c(2, 3)]
+
   data.table::fwrite(merged, file = output, sep = "\t", col.names = keep_col_names)
 }