readCdfHeader {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

 readCdfHeader(filename)

Arguments

filename name of the CDF file.

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.

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Author(s)

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

References

See Also

readCdfUnits().

Examples

for (zzz in 0) {

# Find any CDF file
cdfFile <- findCdf()
if (is.null(cdfFile))
  break

header <- readCdfHeader(cdfFile)
print(header)

} # for (zzz in 0)

[Package affxparser version 1.8.3 Index]