readcontrolCode         package:arrayQuality         R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This component reads spot type information from a tab delimited
     text file to a matrix.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     readcontrolCode(file = "SpotTypes.txt", path = NULL, sep = "\t", check.names = FALSE, controlId=c("ID", "Name"), ...) 

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

    file: Character string giving the name of the file specifying the
          spot types.

    path: Character string giving the directory containing the file.
          Can be omitted if the file is in the current working
          directory.

     sep: the field separator character.

check.names: Logical, if 'FALSE' column names will not be converted to
          valid variable names, for example spaces in column names will
          not be left as is.

controlId: Character string. Name of the column of the gpr file used to
          define controls.

     ...: additional arguments

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A 2 column matrix named controlCode.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Jean Yee Hwa Yang, Agnes Paquet

