You can also directly run some examples from those help pages; library(ShortRead) example(readFasta) example(read.DNAStringSet) Note, example(read.DNAStringSet) depends on the package 'BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2' , which is only a suggested package. Marcus On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Vincent Carey <stvjc@channing.harvard.edu>wrote: > install Biostrings package; study the Installation node of > bioconductor.orgif this has not occurred > > issue the commands > > library(Biostrings) > ?read.DNAStringSet > > look at the example towards the end of the help page > > do read and abide by the posting guide at bioconductor.org if you have > further questions > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Tahir Mujtaba [guest] < > guest@bioconductor.org> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > i am a learner of R and bioconductir, biostrings etc. > > i want to read a fasta file in R, the file is saved on my desktop. > > please guide me how can i do that,i have seen few manuals but still its > > confusing for me. > > > > -- output of sessionInfo(): > > > > fdf > > > > -- > > Sent via the guest posting facility at bioconductor.org. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioconductor mailing list > > Bioconductor@r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > > Search the archives: > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]