1 Installation

The package is not yet available from Bioconductor.

Install the development version of the AnVILAz package from GitHub with

if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager", repos = "https://cran.r-project.org")
BiocManager::install("Bioconductor/AnVILAz")

Once installed, load the package with

library(AnVILAz)

2 File Management

For this tutorial we will refer to the Azure Blob Storage service as ABS. Within the ABS, we are given access to a Container. For more information, follow this link to Microsoft’s definition of containers and blobs.

2.1 List Azure Blob Storage Container Files

avlist()

The avlist command corresponds to a view of the files in the Blob container on Azure. They can also be accessed via the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer.