readFCS {prada}R Documentation

Read an FCS 3.0 file

Description

Read an FCS 3.0 file: Data File Standard for Flow Cytometry, Version FCS3.0

Usage

  readFCS(filename)

Arguments

filename Character of length 1: filename

Details

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 function works with the output of the FACS machine software from a number of vendors. However, the FCS 3.0 standard includes some options that are not yet implemented in this function. If you need extensions, please let me know.

Value

An object of class link[prada]{cytoFrame}.

Author(s)

Wolfgang Huber http://www.ebi.ac.uk/huber

See Also

readFCSdata

Examples

sampdat <- readFCS(system.file("extdata", "fas-Bcl2-plate323-04-04.A01",
                               package="prada"))
sampdat
exprs(sampdat[1:3,])
description(sampdat)[3:6]


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