Parse a fasta file into a named character vector.
Usage
read_fasta(file, ids = NULL)
Arguments
- file
A file/URL with fasta-formatted sequences. Can optionally be
compressed with gzip, bzip2, xz, or lzma.
- ids
Character vector of IDs to retrieve. The default, NULL,
will retrieve everything.
Value
A named character vector in which names are the fasta headers and
values are the sequences.