getBrukerBAFAllMetadata: Retrieve all metadata values from a Bruker BAF file

In rtms: R Toolkit for Mass Spectrometry

Retrieve all metadata values from a Bruker BAF file

Description

Retrieves a table of all metadata values (including instrument data, acquisition parameters, processing and analysis directives, etc.) from a Bruker single acquisition BAF directory (represented by an rtmsBrukerBAFReader object).

Usage

getBrukerBAFAllMetadata(reader)

Arguments

reader

An RTMS reader object of class rtmsBrukerBAFReader

Value

A data frame with all metadata parameters for the acquisition. The data frame will have five columns: rowIndex, a numeric index for each metadata value; parameterName, the internal identifier of the parameter in Bruker software systems; parameterGroup, the group of parameters that each value belongs to; displayName, the string used to specify the parameter to users (i.e. how the parameter would be labelled in a user interface); and stringValue, a character column containing the value of each metadata parameter. Numeric quantities will also be returned as strings, with units if appropriate.

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