write.biom {rbiom}

Write counts, metadata, taxonomy, and phylogeny to a biom file.

Description

Write counts, metadata, taxonomy, and phylogeny to a biom file.

Usage

write.biom(biom, file, format = "json")

Arguments

biom

The BIOM object to save to the file.

file

Path to the output file.

format

Options are “tab”, “json”, and “hdf5”, corresponding to classic tabular format, biom format version 1.0 and biom version 2.1, respectively. Abbreviations are also accepted. See http://biom-format.org/documentation/ for details. NOTE: to write HDF5 formatted BIOM files, the BioConductor R package rhdf5 must be installed.

Value

On success, returns NULL invisibly.