readBeadTargets {beadarray}R Documentation

Create targets object

Description

Read targets file for a BeadArray experiment into a dataframe.

Usage

readBeadTargets(file = "beadTargets.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 image file and file containing bead centre information for each array in a BeadArray experiment. The function looks for a file called beadTargets.txt in the current working directory.

Value

A dataframe containing the columns found in the text file

Author(s)

Mark Dunning, Mike Smith

Examples


#beadTargets = readBeadTargets()

#can also specify path

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


[Package beadarray version 1.0.0 Index]