I tried the following, obviously it didn't work. Hope you get my point, how to do it in R ? My objective is to read a large fasta file (but not storing the entire data into memory) , and compute some sequence composition statistics. while(a <- readLines("test1") != EOF) print(a) _________________________________________________________________
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