produceGEOSampleInfoTemplate      package:lumi      R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Produce the template of GEO sample information, which is used for
     function 'produceGEOSubmissionFile'.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     produceGEOSampleInfoTemplate(lumiNormalized, lib.mapping = NULL, fileName = "GEOsampleInfo.txt")

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

lumiNormalized: The normalized data (LumiBatch object) 

lib.mapping: The Illumina ID Mapping library, e.g.,
          "lumiHumanIDMapping" 

fileName: The file name of Tab separated sample information file 

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     This function just produces a template of sample information with
     some default fillings. Users need to fill in the detailed sample
     descriptions, especially the Sample_title, Sample_description and
     some protocols. No blank fields are allowed. Function
     'produceGEOSubmissionFile' will produce the file GEO submission
     file based on this sample information. The users should not use
     "#" in the description as it is a reserved character.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     Save the result as a Tab separated text file or return a
     data.frame if the fileName is NULL.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Pan Du

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/geo/info/soft2.html

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'produceGEOSubmissionFile'

