bgzf_compress: Compress file with bgzip
In WhopGenome: High-Speed Processing of VCF, FASTA and Alignment Data

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Write contents of file <infilename> bgzip-compressed to file named <outfilename>.

1	bgzf_compress( infilename, outfilename )

`infilename`	Name of file to read data from for compression
`outfilename`	Name of file to write compressed data to

Compresses the file specified by <infilename> with the bgzip compression scheme, as developed by Bob Handsaker and modified by Heng Li, and creates a compressed file under the name given by <outfilename>.

TRUE if call succeeds, FALSE if it fails).

Ulrich Wittelsbuerger

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gfffile  <- system.file("data", "ex.gff3", package = "WhopGenome" )
gffgzfile <- paste( sep="", gfffile, ".gz" )
file.remove( gffgzfile )
bgzf_compress( gfffile , gffgzfile )
file.exists( gffgzfile )