findCdf: Search for CDF files in multiple directories
In affxparser: Affymetrix File Parsing SDK

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Search for CDF files in multiple directories.

1	findCdf(chipType=NULL, paths=NULL, recursive=TRUE, pattern="[.](c\|C)(d\|D)(f\|F)$", ...)

`chipType`	A `character` string of the chip type to search for.
`paths`	A `character` `vector` of paths to be searched. The current directory is always searched at the beginning. If `NULL`, default paths are searched. For more details, see below.
`recursive`	If `TRUE`, directories are searched recursively.
`pattern`	A regular expression file name pattern to match.
`...`	Additional arguments passed to `findFiles`().

Note, the current directory is always searched first, but never recursively (unless it is added to the search path explicitly). This provides an easy way to override other files in the search path.

If paths is NULL, then a set of default paths are searched. The default search path constitutes:

getOption("AFFX_CDF_PATH")
Sys.getenv("AFFX_CDF_PATH")

One of the easiest ways to set system variables for R is to set them in an .Renviron file, e.g.

    # affxparser: Set default CDF path
    AFFX_CDF_PATH=${AFFX_CDF_PATH};M:/Affymetrix_2004-100k_trios/cdf
    AFFX_CDF_PATH=${AFFX_CDF_PATH};M:/Affymetrix_2005-500k_data/cdf

See Startup for more details.

Returns a vector of the full pathnames of the files found.

Henrik Bengtsson

This method is used internally by readCelUnits() if the CDF file is not specified.

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if (require("AffymetrixDataTestFiles")) {            # START #
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# Find a specific CDF file
cdfFile <- findCdf("Mapping10K_Xba131")
print(cdfFile)

# Find the first CDF file (no matter what it is)
cdfFile <- findCdf()
print(cdfFile)

# Find all CDF files in search path and display their headers
cdfFiles <- findCdf(firstOnly=FALSE)
for (cdfFile in cdfFiles) {
  cat("=======================================\n")
  hdr <- readCdfHeader(cdfFile)
  str(hdr)
}

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}                                                     # STOP #
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