maigesPack (version 1.36.0)

normLoc: Normalise a cDNA Microarray Object

Description

This function loads a maigesRaw object and corrects for location bias.

Usage

normLoc(obj=NULL, ...)

Arguments

obj

object of type maigesRaw to be normalised.

...

additional parameters for function normalizeWithinArrays from limma package.

Value

This function returns a maiges object.

Details

This function for normalisation is entirely based on the function normalizeWithinArrays from limma package. See their help page to known how to setup the parameters correctly. The parameters layout and weights, are automatically specified by the object obj and must not be specified.

See Also

normalizeWithinArrays from limma package.

Examples

## Loading the dataset
data(gastro)

## Do the normalization by loess method and span 0.4
gastro.norm = normLoc(gastro.raw2, span=0.4, method="loess")

## Do the same normalization without background subtraction
gastro.norm = normLoc(gastro.raw2, span=0.4, method="loess", bc.method="none")