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header-methods

Extract the header from a biom-class object as a list.

Extract the header from a biom-class object as a list.

header(x)

## S4 method for signature 'biom'
header(x)

`x`	(Required). An instance of the `biom-class`.

A list containing the header data. That is, all the required elements that are not the main data or index metadata.

biom_file = system.file("extdata", "rich_sparse_otu_table.biom", package = "biomformat")
x = read_biom(biom_file)
header(x)

An interface package for the BIOM file format

v1.18.0

GPL-2

Authors

Paul J. McMurdie <mcmurdie@stanford.edu> and Joseph N Paulson <jpaulson@jimmy.harvard.edu>

Initial release

2016-04-16