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Marcus Davy
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Hi,
as fastq files are often compressed now, I would like to be able to
write
out to compressed 'fq.gz' files, rather than raw text.
I have searched the BioC threads and found a similar topic at;
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor/4
5306/match=writeFastq
A poor example of what I would like to be able to achieve follows;
example(readFastq)
print(rfq)
fout <- "test.fq"
writeFastq(rfq, fout)
system(paste("gzip", fout))
but this does not compress the data as it is streaming out to file. I
would
like to be able to do something like below, so this is a potential
feature
request;
fout <- "test.fq.gz"
writeFastq(rfq, fout, compress=TRUE)
Is there an obvious way to compress using writeFastq that I am
missing?
cheers,
Marcus
sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
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[4] Rsamtools_1.12.3 lattice_0.20-15 Biostrings_2.28.0
[7] GenomicRanges_1.12.2 IRanges_1.18.0 BiocGenerics_0.6.0
[10] BiocInstaller_1.10.3 limma_3.16.7 Hmisc_3.12-2
[13] Formula_1.1-1 survival_2.37-4
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