MALDIquantForeign (version 0.10)

exportTab,AbstractMassObject-method: Export to text files

Description

This function exports AbstractMassObject-class objects (e.g. MassSpectrum-class, MassPeaks-class) into different text file formats.

Usage

# S4 method for AbstractMassObject
exportTab(x, file, force=FALSE, …)
# S4 method for list
exportTab(x, path, force=FALSE, …)
# S4 method for AbstractMassObject
exportCsv(x, file, force=FALSE, …)
# S4 method for list
exportCsv(x, path, force=FALSE, …)

Arguments

x

a AbstractMassObject-class object or a list of AbstractMassObject-class objects.

file

character, file name.

force

logical, If TRUE the file would be overwritten or path would be created.

path

character, path to directory in which the list of AbstractMassObject-class would be exported.

…

arguments to be passed to write.table.

Details

exportTab and exportCsv use write.table with different defaults (sep="\t" in exportTab and sep="," in exportCsv).

References

http://strimmerlab.org/software/maldiquant/

See Also

MassPeaks-class, MassSpectrum-class, write.table

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# }
# NOT RUN {
library("MALDIquant")
library("MALDIquantForeign")

s <- list(createMassSpectrum(mass=1:5, intensity=1:5),
          createMassSpectrum(mass=1:5, intensity=1:5))

## export a single spectrum
exportTab(s[[1]], file="spectrum.tab")

## export a list of spectra and use ; as separator
exportCsv(s, path="spectra", sep=";", force=TRUE)
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }