wtccc.sample.list: read the sample list from the header of the WTCCC signal file...

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

View source: R/wtccc.sample.list.R

Description

This is a convenience function for constructing the sample list from the header of a WTCCC signal file.

Usage

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Arguments

infile

One of the signal files in a set of 23 (it is advisable to use the smaller ones such as number 22, although it shouldn't matter).

Details

The header of a WTCCC signal file is like this:

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  AFFYID RSID pos  AlleleA AlleleB 12999A2_A 12999A2_B ...

The first 5 fields are discarded. There after, every other token is retained, with the "\_A" or "\_B" part removed to give the sample list.

See also read.wtccc.signals for more details.

Value

The value returned is a character vector contain the sample names or the plate-well names as appropriate.

Author(s)

Hin-Tak Leung htl10@users.sourceforge.net

References

http://www.wtccc.org.uk

See Also

read.wtccc.signals


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