read.cdf.header {affxparser}R Documentation

Reads the header associated with an Affymetrix CDF file

Description

Reads the header of an Affymetrix CDF file using the Fusion SDK.

Usage

read.cdf.header(fname)

Arguments

fname name of the CDF file.

Details

Value

A named list with the following components

rows the number of rows on the chip.
cols the number of columns on the chip.
probesets the number of probesets on the chip.
qcprobesets the number of QC probesets on the chip.
reference the reference sequence (this component only exists for resequencing chips).
chiptype the type of the chip.
filename the name of the cdf file.

Note

Author(s)

James Bullard, bullard@stat.berkeley.edu and Kasper Daniel Hansen, khansen@stat.berkeley.edu

References

See Also

affxparserInfo for general information about the package and read.cdf.complete for information about CDF files.

Examples

## Not run: 
read.cdf.header(fname = "~/test.CDF")
## End(Not run)

[Package affxparser version 1.2.0 Index]