qpcR (version 1.0-6)

pcrimport: Simple qPCR data import function (i.e. from text files or clipboard).

Description

Simple wrapper function to easily import qPCR data from the clipboard (default) or tab-delimited text files.

Usage

pcrimport(file = "clipboard", sep = "\t", header = TRUE, quote = "", 
            dec = ".", colClasses = "numeric", ...)

Arguments

file

the name of the file which the data are to be read from (full path).

sep

the field separator character.

header

a logical value indicating whether the file contains the names of the variables as its first line.

quote

the set of quoting characters.

dec

the character used in the file to denote decimal points.

colClasses

character. A vector of classes to be assumed for the columns.

...

further arguments to be passed on to read.table.

Value

• A data frame containing a representation of the data in the file.

Details

For a more detailed description of the arguments see read.table.

Examples

### paste some Excel data into the clipboard ###
temp <- pcrimport()
### from a tab-delimited text file ###
temp <- pcrimport("c:\temp\foo.txt")