SomaDataIO (version 6.2.0)

parseHeader: SomaLogic ADAT parser

Description

Parses the header section of an ADAT file.

Usage

parseHeader(file)

Value

A list of relevant file information required by read_adat()

in order to complete loading the ADAT file, including:

Header.Meta

list of notes and other information about the adat

Col.Meta

list of vectors that contain the column meta data about individual analytes, includes information about the target name and calibration and QC ratios

file_specs

list of values of the file parsing specifications

row_meta

character vector of the clinical variables; assay information that is included in the adat output along with the RFU data

Arguments

file

Character. The elaborated path and file name of the *.adat file to be loaded into an R workspace environment.

Author

Stu Field

See Also

Other IO: loadAdatsAsList(), read_adat(), soma_adat, write_adat()

Examples

f <- system.file("extdata", "example_data10.adat",
                 package = "SomaDataIO", mustWork = TRUE)
header <- parseHeader(f)
names(header)

header$Header.Meta

header$file_specs

header$row_meta

head(as.data.frame(header$Col.Meta))