aroma.core (version 3.3.2)

writeDataFrame.AromaUnitTabularBinaryFile: Writes the data file as a tab-delimited text file

Description

Writes the data file as a tab-delimited text file with or without file header comments.

Usage

# S3 method for AromaUnitTabularBinaryFile
writeDataFrame(this, filename=sprintf("%s.txt", getFilename(this)),
  path=file.path(getRootName(this, tags = "*,txt"), getFullName(this), getChipType(this,
  fullname = FALSE)), ..., columns=c("unitName", "*"), sep="\t", addHeader=TRUE,
  createdBy=NULL, nbrOfDecimals=4L, columnNamesPrefix=c("fullname", "name", "none"),
  overwrite=FALSE, verbose=FALSE)

Value

Returns the write data file as a TabularTextFile object.

Arguments

filename

The filename of generated file.

path

The path where the generated file should be written.

...

Not used.

columns

A character vector specifying which column names, including optional annotation data column names, that should be exported. A string "*" corresponds to inserting the column names of the source data file.

sep

A character string specifying the column separator

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addHeader

If TRUE, file header comments will be added that contain additional information about the source file and more.

createdBy

A character string specifying the createdBy file header comment. If NULL, the package version will be written.

nbrOfDecimals

An integer specifying the number of decimals for floating point columns.

columnNamesPrefix

A character string specifying what type of prefix should be used for column names.

overwrite

If TRUE, an existing destination file will be overwritten, otherwise an exception will be thrown.

verbose

A logical or a Verbose object.

Author

Henrik Bengtsson

See Also

For more information see AromaUnitTabularBinaryFile.