parseHeader: SomaLogic ADAT parser

In SomaDataIO: Input/Output 'SomaScan' Data

SomaLogic ADAT parser

Description

Parses the header section of an ADAT file.

Usage

parseHeader(file)

Arguments

file	Character. The elaborated path and file name of the ⁠*.adat⁠ file to be loaded into an R workspace environment.

Value

A list of relevant file information required by read_adat() in order to complete loading the ADAT file, including:

Header.Meta	list of notes and other information about the adat
Col.Meta	list of vectors that contain the column meta data about individual analytes, includes information about the target name and calibration and QC ratios
file_specs	list of values of the file parsing specifications
row_meta	character vector of the clinical variables; assay information that is included in the adat output along with the RFU data

Author(s)

Stu Field

See Also

Other IO: loadAdatsAsList(), read_adat(), soma_adat, write_adat()

Examples

f <- system.file("extdata", "example_data10.adat",
                 package = "SomaDataIO", mustWork = TRUE)
header <- parseHeader(f)
names(header)

header$Header.Meta

header$file_specs

header$row_meta

head(as.data.frame(header$Col.Meta))

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