biocrates {MatrixQCvis} | R Documentation

## Convert Biocrates xlsx output to 'SummarizedExperiment' object

### Description

The function 'biocrates' will create a 'SummarizedExperiment' from a Biocrates xlsx file. The function 'biocrates' takes as input the path to a .xlsx file (Biocrates output) and additional parameters given to the 'read.xlsx' function from the 'openxlsx' package (e.g. specifying the sheet name or index by 'sheet').

### Usage

    biocrates(file, sheet, ...)

### Arguments

`file` | 'character'
`sheet` | 'character' or 'numeric', the name or index of the sheet to read data from
`...` | additional parameters given to 'read.xslx'

### Details

The column "Sample Identification" has to contain unique identifiers (no duplications).

### Value

'SummarizedExperiment' object

### Examples

    file <- "path/to/biocrates/object"
    biocrates(file = file, sheet = 1)

[Package MatrixQCvis version 1.0.0 Index]