readBeadSummaryTargets {beadarray}R Documentation

Create targets object

Description

Read targets file for a BeadArray experiment into a dataframe.

Usage

readBeadSummaryTargets(file = "beadSummaryTargets.txt", path = NULL,  header=T,sep="" )

Arguments

file character string giving the name of the targets file.
path character string giving the directory containing the file. Can be omitted if the file is in the current working directory.
header if TRUE then header names will be taken from the text file
sep field separator character

Details

A targets file defines the files containing bead summary information for a BeadArray experiment. Each file may describe either a single array, or a 96-well SAM. The function looks for a file called beadTargets.txt in the current working directory. It should contain a column heading FileName with each of the files to be read listed below.

Value

A dataframe containing the columns found in the text file

Author(s)

Mark Dunning, Mike Smith

Examples


#beadTargets = readBeadSummaryTargets()

#can also specify path

#beadTargets = readBeadTargets(file="otherfile.txt", path="otherdirectory")


[Package beadarray version 1.0.0 Index]