read.marrayInfo: Create objects of class marrayInfo
In marray: Exploratory analysis for two-color spotted microarray data

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples

This function creates objects of class marrayInfo. The marrayInfo class is used to store information regarding the target mRNA samples co-hybridized on the arrays or the spotted probe sequences (e.g. data frame of gene names, annotations, and other identifiers).

1	read.marrayInfo(fname, info.id=NULL, labels=NULL, notes=fname, sep="\t",skip=0, quote="\"", ...)

`fname`	the name of the file that stores information on target samples or probe sequences. This is usually a file obtained from a database.
`info.id`	the column numbers in `fname` that contain the required 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.
`quote`	the set of quoting characters. By default, this is disable by setting ‘quote="\""’.
`...`	further arguments to `scan`.

An object of class marrayInfo.

Jean Yang, yeehwa@stat.berkeley.edu

http://www.bioconductor.org/

datadir <- system.file("swirldata", package="marray")

## Reading target sample information
swirl.samples <- read.marrayInfo(file.path(datadir, "SwirlSample.txt"))

## Reading probe sequence information
swirl.gnames <- read.marrayInfo(file.path(datadir, "fish.gal"),
                                info.id=4:5, labels=5, skip=21)