Read variant call format data

Read variant call format (VCF) data and save in gData format. This is a wrapper around vcfR::read.vcfR in the package vcfR. This package needs to be installed for the function to work.

Usage

readVcf(vcfFile, ...)

Arguments

vcfFile

The name of the vcf file. This can either be a plain text file with extension (.vcf), or a gzipped file with extencion (.vcf.gz).

...

Further arguments passed to vcfR::read.vcfR.

Value

An object of class gData.

References

Knaus BJ, Grünwald NJ (2017). “VCFR: a package to manipulate and visualizevariant call format data in R.” Molecular Ecology Resources, 17(1), 44-53. ISSN 757, doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12549 .