read.Galfile: Reading GenePix Gal file
In marray: Exploratory analysis for two-color spotted microarray data

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Reading a standard Gal file containing gene information.

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read.Galfile(galfile, path = ".", info.id = c("ID", "Name"),
layout.id =c(Block="Block", Row="Row", Column="Column"),
labels = "ID", notes = "", sep = "\t", skip = NULL,   ncolumns=4, ...)

`galfile`	a character string representing the Gal file.
`path`	a character string representing the data directory. By default this is set to the current working directory (".").
`info.id`	the column numbers or names in ‘fname’ that contain the required information.
`layout.id`	the column names in ‘fname’ that specified the printer layout information.
`labels`	the column number in `fname` which contains the names that the user would like to use to label spots or arrays (e.g. for default titles in `maPlot`.
`notes`	object of class character, vector of explanatory text
`sep`	the field separator character. Values on each line of the file are separated by this character. The default is to read a tab delimited file.
`skip`	the number of lines of the data file to skip before beginning to read data.
`ncolumns`	an integer representing the number of columns of sub-array (print-tips) on a slides.
`...`	further arguments to `scan`.

`gnames`	An object of class `marrayInfo`.
`layout`	An object of class `marrayLayout`.

Yee Hwa (Jean) Yang

read.marrayInfo, read.marrayLayout

library(marray)
datadir <- system.file("swirldata", package="marray")
try <- read.Galfile(galfile="fish.gal", path=datadir)
names(try)
try$layout
try$gnames