install_mmseqs2: Install MMseqs2 from GitHub releases

In MiscMetabar: Miscellaneous Functions for Metabarcoding Analysis

Install MMseqs2 from GitHub releases

Description

Downloads a pre-compiled MMseqs2 binary from https://mmseqs.com/latest/ and places it in the user data directory for this package. Subsequent calls to find_mmseqs2() will find it automatically.

Usage

install_mmseqs2(
  version = "latest",
  path = tools::R_user_dir("MiscMetabar", "data"),
  force = FALSE
)

Arguments

version	Character. Either "latest" (default) or a specific release tag (e.g. "17-b804f").
path	Destination directory (default: tools::R_user_dir("MiscMetabar", "data")).
force	Logical. Re-download even if already installed?

Value

The path to the installed binary (invisibly).

Author(s)

Adrien Taudière

See Also

find_mmseqs2(), is_mmseqs2_installed(), assign_mmseqs2()

Examples

## Not run: 
install_mmseqs2()
install_mmseqs2(force = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

MiscMetabar documentation built on June 8, 2026, 5:07 p.m.