qpcR (version 1.1-8)

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 = "", header = TRUE, quote = "", 
            dec = ".", colClasses = "numeric", ...)

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.}

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

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

[object Object]

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

IO
file