I typically use pipe() in these circumstances which avoids using any additional storage
readLines(pipe("cat file1 file2")) It should work with filterFastq assuming it can read from connections rather than just files, but I have not tested it to be sure. On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Ryan C. Thompson <r...@thompsonclan.org> wrote: > That's not ideal because it's duplicating storage unnecessarily. > > > On 04/22/2015 04:07 AM, Aedin wrote: > >> This is one instance were a system or simple unix command is very easy >> >> system('cat *.fastq > all.fastq') >> >> >> --- >> >> On Apr 22, 2015, at 6:00, bioc-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote: >>> >>> Re: Append/combine option for filterFastq and similar? >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel