[BioC] Rsamtools: scan all optional tags that exists in my bam file

[rubi [guest]]

Hi,

Using Rsamtools to read a bam file, is there a way to scan all the optional tag fields that exists in the bam file without having to explicitly specify them a priory in the ScanBamParam argument?


 -- output of sessionInfo(): 

R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] doParallel_1.0.3      iterators_1.0.6       foreach_1.4.1         data.table_1.8.10     Rsamtools_1.13.44     Biostrings_2.29.19    GenomicRanges_1.13.45 XVector_0.1.4        
 [9] IRanges_1.19.38       BiocGenerics_0.7.5   

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] bitops_1.0-6    codetools_0.2-8 stats4_3.0.2    tools_3.0.2     zlibbioc_1.7.0 

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