import.ncbi.file: import.ncbi.file

In drmjc/genomics: Genomics related functions.

Description

General wrapper to import and NCBI file that has usually been mirrored to the local disc. It will copy the compressed or uncompressed file, unzip it in the tmp dir, grep out the taxon of interest, resort by a given column, and return the data

Usage

  import.ncbi.file(file, taxid, colnames, sortby.col)

Arguments

file	path to ncbi-formatted file
taxid	numeric taxon id
colnames	character vector
sortby.col	undocumented

Value

data.frame

Author(s)

Mark Cowley, 10 April 2006

drmjc/genomics documentation built on May 15, 2019, 2:22 p.m.