readCdfHeader: Reads the header associated with an Affymetrix CDF file

In HenrikBengtsson/affxparser: Affymetrix File Parsing SDK

Reads the header associated with an Affymetrix CDF file

Description

Reads the header of an Affymetrix CDF file using the Fusion SDK.

Usage

 readCdfHeader(filename)

Arguments

filename

name of the CDF file.

Value

A named list with the following components:

rows	the number of rows on the chip.
cols	the number of columns on the chip.
probesets	the number of probesets on the chip.
qcprobesets	the number of QC probesets on the chip.
reference	the reference sequence (this component only exists for resequencing chips).
chiptype	the type of the chip.
filename	the name of the cdf file.

Author(s)

James Bullard and Kasper Daniel Hansen

See Also

readCdfUnits().

Examples

for (zzz in 0) {

# Find any CDF file
cdfFile <- findCdf()
if (is.null(cdfFile))
  break

header <- readCdfHeader(cdfFile)
print(header)

} # for (zzz in 0)

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