Package 'alabaster.string'

Read an XStringSet from disk.

Description

Read a XStringSet object from its on-disk representation. This is usually not directly called by users, but is instead called by dispatch in readObject.

Usage

readXStringSet(path, metadata, ...)

Arguments

path	String containing a path to a directory, itself created using the saveObject method for XStringSet objects.
metadata	Named list of metadata for this object, see readObjectFile for details.
...	Further arguments passed to internal altReadObject calls.

Value

An XStringSet subclass containing DNA, RNA, protein or custom sequences. This may also be a QualityScaledDNAStringSet with quality scores.

See Also

"saveObject,XStringSet-method", to save an XStringSet to disk.

Examples

library(Biostrings)
stuff <- DNAStringSet(c("AAA", "CC", "G", "TTTT"))

tmp <- tempfile()
saveObject(stuff, tmp)
readObject(tmp)

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Save a XStringSet to disk

Description

Save a XStringSet to its on-disk representation.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'XStringSet'
saveObject(x, path, ...)

Arguments

x	A XStringSet or any of its subclasses such as a QualityScaledXStringSet.
path	String containing the path to a directory in which to save x.
...	Further arguments to pass to specific methods.

Value

The contents of x are saved into a path, and NULL is invisibly returned.

Author(s)

Aaron Lun

See Also

readXStringSet, to read the XStringSet back into the R session.

Examples

library(Biostrings)
stuff <- DNAStringSet(c("AAA", "CC", "G", "TTTT"))

tmp <- tempfile()
saveObject(stuff, tmp)
list.files(tmp, recursive=TRUE)

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