arrayQuality (version 1.50.0)

readcontrolCode: Control status information

Description

This component reads spot type information from a tab delimited text file to a matrix.

Usage

readcontrolCode(file = "SpotTypes.txt", path = NULL, sep = "\t", check.names = FALSE, controlId=c("ID", "Name"), ...)

Arguments

file

Character string giving the name of the file specifying the spot types.

path

Character string giving the directory containing the file. Can be omitted if the file is in the current working directory.

sep

the field separator character.

check.names

Logical, if 'FALSE' column names will not be converted to valid variable names, for example spaces in column names will not be left as is.

controlId

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

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additional arguments

Value

A 2 column matrix named controlCode.