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rtms (version 0.2.0)

getBrukerMCFAllMetadata: Retrieve all metadata values from a Bruker MCF file

Description

Retrieves a table of all metadata values (including instrument data, acquisition parameters, processing and analysis directives, etc.) for a specific acquisition from a Bruker multi-acquisition MCF directory (represented by an rtmsBrukerMCFReader object).

Usage

getBrukerMCFAllMetadata(reader, index)

Value

A data frame with all metadata parameters for the acquisition. The data frame will have five columns: Index, the numeric index of the acquisition; PermanentName, the internal identifier of the parameter in Bruker software systems; GroupName, the group of parameters that each value belongs to; DisplayName, the string used to specify the parameter to users (i.e. how the parameter would be labelled in a user interface); and Value, a character column containing the value of each metadata parameter. Numeric quantities will also be returned as strings, with units if appropriate.

Arguments

reader

An RTMS reader object of class rtmsBrukerMCFReader

index

A single numeric index specifying which acquisition the sample set should be extracted from