es2gds: Coersion method for MethyLumiSet, RGChannelSet or MethylSet...

In bigmelon: Illumina methylation array analysis for large experiments

Description

The es2gds function takes a MethyLumiSet, RGChannelSet or MethylSet data object and converts it into a CoreArray Genomic Data Structure (GDS) data file (via the gdsfmt package), returning this as a gds.class object for use with bigmelon.

Usage

es2gds(m, file, qc = TRUE)

Arguments

m	A MethyLumiSet, RGChannelSet or MethylSet object
file	A character string specifying the name of the .gds file to write to.
qc	When set to true (default), data from control probes included.

Value

A gds.class object, which points to the newly created .gds file.

Author(s)

Leonard C Schalkwyk, Ayden Saffari, Tyler Gorrie-Stone Who to contact: <[e-mail]>

See Also

app2gds, iadd.

Examples

#load example dataset
data(melon)
#convert to gds
e <- es2gds(melon,'melon.gds')
closefn.gds(e)
unlink('melon.gds')

bigmelon documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 7:40 p.m.