WhopGenome (version 0.9.4)

bgzf_compress: Compress file with bgzip

Description

Write contents of file bgzip-compressed to file named .

Usage

bgzf_compress( infilename, outfilename )

Arguments

infilename

Name of file to read data from for compression

outfilename

Name of file to write compressed data to

Value

TRUE if call succeeds, FALSE if it fails).

Details

Compresses the file specified by 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 .

Examples

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##	Example :
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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 )