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alabaster.files

Wrappers to Save Common File Formats

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.11.1

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3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release)

Save common bioinformatics file formats within the alabaster framework. This includes BAM, BED, VCF, bigWig, bigBed, FASTQ, FASTA and so on. We save and load additional metadata for each file, and we support linkage between each file and its corresponding index.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.alabaster.files

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("alabaster.files")

Details

MaintainerAaron Lun <infinite.monkeys.with.keyboards@gmail.com>
AuthorAaron Lun [aut, cre]
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsDataImport, DataRepresentation, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/alabaster.files/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("alabaster.files"):

Aaron Lun. alabaster.files: Wrappers to Save Common File Formats. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.alabaster.files, R package version 1.11.1, https://bioconductor.org/packages/alabaster.files.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Documentation

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packagealabaster.files_1.11.1.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)alabaster.files_1.11.1.zip
macOS binary (arm64)alabaster.files_1.11.1.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)alabaster.files_1.11.1.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: alabaster.base

Imports: methods, S4Vectors, BiocGenerics, Rsamtools

Suggests: BiocStyle, rmarkdown, knitr, testthat, VariantAnnotation, rtracklayer, Biostrings