read.meta: Open Metadata Table

In RAM: R for Amplicon-Sequencing-Based Microbial-Ecology

Description

Opens the given file and return a data frame representing the metadata. This function use read.table to read in data; for large data sets, we recommend read.meta.

Usage

read.meta(file, sep=",")

Arguments

file	a character vector specifying the file path to your file.
sep	the character used to separate cells in the file.

Value

Returns a data frame with the information from the file. The first row and column are used for the names of the other rows and columns.

Author(s)

Wen Chen and Joshua Simpson

See Also

read.meta, read.table

Examples

  ## Not run: 
    my.meta <- read.meta("path/to/meta")
  
## End(Not run)

RAM documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:04 p.m.