readFCS {prada} | R Documentation |
Read an FCS 3.0 file: Data File Standard for Flow Cytometry, Version FCS3.0
readFCS(filename)
filename |
Character of length 1: filename |
For specifications of FACS 3.0 see
http://www.isac-net.org and the file
../doc/fcs3.html in the doc
directory of the package.
The FCS 3.0 has many options that are not yet implemented in this function. It works for the data produced by the FACS machine Calibur from BD Bioscience together with the software Cellquest Pro at the Division of Molecular Genome Analysis at the German Cancer Research Center. If you need extensions, please let me know.
A matrix with column names (one row per cell, one column per
measured parameter), and attribute text
, a named
character vector with keyword-value pairs.
Wolfgang Huber http://www.dkfz.de/abt0840/whuber
sampdat <- readFCS(system.file("extdata", "fas Bcl2 plate323-04-04.A01", package="prada")) sampdat[1:5,] dim(sampdat) attr(sampdat, "text")[3:6]