IFC (version 0.2.1)

readFCStext: FCS Text Parser

Description

Helper to parse text segment from Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) compliant files.

Usage

readFCStext(
  fileName,
  delimiter,
  start = 0,
  end = 0,
  encoding = "UTF-8",
  empty = FALSE,
  trim = "none",
  ...
)

Arguments

fileName

path to file.

delimiter

delimiter used to separate keyword-value pairs. /!\ NOTE that files with 0x00 'delimiter' can _NOT_ be parsed.

start

offset of text start. Default is 0.

end

offset of text end. Default is 0.

encoding

name of the encoding for raw to character conversion. Default is "UTF-8".

empty

whether to allow empty values when parsing text segment. Default is FALSE.

trim

remove whitespace in keywords names. Default is "none". Allowed are "both", "left", "right" and "none".

...

other arguments to be passed.