Package BIOM.utils defines utilities in the R language for conveniently handling the BIOM (Biological Observation Matrix) format. See: http://biom-format.org.
Objects of class "biom" may be constructed with:
biom.list()
biom.matrix()
biom.character()
And methods are provided for:
as.matrix()
as.character()
as.list()
dim()
dimnames()
metadata()
head()
tail()
print()
summary()
str()
CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network) hosts the package including its manual.