identifier {flowCore}R Documentation

Retrieve the GUID of a Object

Description

Retrieve the GUID or globally unique identifier of a flowFrame that was generated by the cytometer or the identifier of a \code{filter} or \code{filterResult} given by the analyst.

Usage

identifier(object)

Arguments

object Object of class flowFrame, filter or filterResult.

Details

GUID or Globally Unique Identifier is a pseudo-random number used in software applications. While each generated GUID is not guaranteed to be unique, the total number of unique keys (2^128) is so large that the probability of the same number being generated twice is very small.

Note that if no GUID has been recorded along with the FCS file, the name of the file is returned.

Value

Character vector representing the GUID or the name of the file.

Author(s)

N. LeMeur

Examples

 samp <- read.FCS(system.file("extdata","0877408774.B08", package="flowCore"))
 identifier(samp)


[Package flowCore version 1.0.2 Index]