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+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/preprocess.R
+\name{split_fasta}
+\alias{split_fasta}
+\title{Split fasta file into smaller files.}
+\usage{
+split_fasta(
+  path_input,
+  target_folder,
+  split_n = 500,
+  shuffle_entries = TRUE,
+  delete_input = FALSE
+)
+}
+\arguments{
+\item{path_input}{Fasta file to split into smaller files}
+
+\item{target_folder}{Directory for output.}
+
+\item{split_n}{Maximum number of entries to use in smaller file.}
+
+\item{shuffle_entries}{Whether to shuffle fasta entries before split.}
+
+\item{delete_input}{Whether to delete the original file.}
+}
+\value{
+None. Writes files to output.
+}
+\description{
+Returns smaller files with same file name and "_x" (where x is an integer). For example,
+assume we have input file called "abc.fasta" with 100 entries and \code{split_n = 50}. Function will
+create two files called "abc_1.fasta" and "abc_2.fasta" in \code{target_path}.
+}
+\examples{
+path_input <- tempfile(fileext = '.fasta')
+create_dummy_data(file_path = path_input,
+                  num_files = 1,
+                  write_to_file_path = TRUE,
+                  seq_length = 7,
+                  num_seq = 25,
+                  vocabulary = c("a", "c", "g", "t"))
+target_folder <- tempfile()
+dir.create(target_folder)
+
+# split 25 entries into 5 files
+split_fasta(path_input = path_input,
+            target_folder = target_folder,
+            split_n = 5)
+length(list.files(target_folder)) 
+
+}