write.FCS: Write an FCS file
In flowCore: flowCore: Basic structures for flow cytometry data

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

Write FCS file from a flowFrame

1	write.FCS(x, filename, what="numeric", delimiter = "\|", endian="big")

`x`	A `flowFrame`.
`filename`	A character scalar giving the output file name.
`what`	A character scalar defining the output data type. One in `integer`, `numeric`, `double`. Note that forcing the data type to `integer` may result in considerable loss of precision if the data has been transformed. We recommend using the default data type unless disc space is an issue.
`delimiter`	a single character to separate the FCS keyword/value pairs. Default is : "\|"
`endian`	a character, either "little" or "big" (default), specifying the most significant or least significant byte is stored first in a 32 bit word.

The function write.FCS creates FCS 3.0 standard file from an object of class flowFrame.

For specifications of FCS 3.0 see http://www.isac-net.org and the file ../doc/fcs3.html in the doc directory of the package.

A character vector of the file name.

F. Hahne

link[flowCore]{write.flowSet}

## a sample file
inFile <- system.file("extdata", "0877408774.B08", package="flowCore")
foo <- read.FCS(inFile, transform=FALSE)
outFile <- file.path(tempdir(), "foo.fcs")

## now write out into a file
write.FCS(foo, outFile)
bar <- read.FCS(outFile, transform=FALSE)
all(exprs(foo) == exprs(bar))