arrayQuality (version 1.50.0)

readSpot: Extraction of measures from Spot (.spot) files.

Description

This component reads a Spot file (.spot) and returns columns used for quality control.

Usage

readSpot(fnames = NULL, path= ".", galfile=NULL,DEBUG=FALSE, skip = 0, sep ="\t",quote="\"",controlId="ID", ...)

Arguments

fnames

A "character" string naming the input file.

path

a "character" string representing the data directory. By default this is set to the current working directory (".").

galfile

A "character" string naming the galfile associated with the input file. If galfile = NULL, readSpot will use the first .gal file found in the working directory.

DEBUG

If 'TRUE', debug statements are printed.

skip

Number of lines to skip in the gpr files.

sep

A "character" string defining the type of separation for the columns in the gpr files.

quote

A "character" string defining the type of quote in the gpr files.

controlId

Character string. Name of the column of the Spot file used to define controls.

...

additional arguments.

Value

Agilent file

See Also

slideQuality, agQuality, globalQuality