affy (version 1.50.0)

get.celfile.dates: Extract Dates from CEL files

Description

This function reads the header information for a series of CEL files then extracts and returns the dates.

Usage

get.celfile.dates(filenames, ...)

Arguments

filenames

a vector of characters with the CEL filenames. May be fully pathed.

...

further arguments passed on to read.celfile.header.

Value

• A vector of class Date with one date for each celfile.

Details

The function uses read.celfile.header to read in the header of each file. The ScanDate component is then parsed to extract the date. Note that an assumption is made about the format. Namely, that dates are in the Y-m-d or m/d/y format.

See Also

See Also as read.celfile.header.