read_qiime_mapping_file: Read a QIIME sample mapping file.

Description

Read a QIIME sample mapping file.

Usage

read_qiime_mapping_file(filepath)

Arguments

filepath

Path to sample mapping file. The file must conform to the QIIME standards, detailed at http://qiime.org/documentation/file_formats.html.

Value

A data frame of sample information. Because the SampleID column is so often used to extract data from distance matrices and OTU tables, it is returned as a character vector.