write_table: Read and write metadata to disk

In ressy/srahelper: SRA Helper

Description

These functions read and write to/from a data frame of NCBI metadata (a BioSamples spreadsheet, SRA metadata, or run info) to/from a file in TSV format.

Usage

write_table(data, fp = NULL, fp_suffix = "data", overwrite = FALSE,
  ...)

read_table(fp, ...)

Arguments

data	data frame of metadata
fp	file path to save text. If NULL, will be determined by the submission attribute on data, if present, and fp_suffix, if given, relative to the current working directory.
fp_suffix	A filename suffix to use when constructing output file path if fp is not given.
overwrite	should existing files be replaced? If FALSE (default), an existing file throws an error. If TRUE, an existing file is replaced without any prompting.
...	additional arguments for utils::write.table

Value

The file path written to, for write_table, or a data frame read, for read_table.

Functions

• write_table: Write metadata to disk

• read_table: Read metadata from disk

ressy/srahelper documentation built on May 29, 2019, 11:03 p.m.