write.MicroarrayData: Write a MicroarrayData object to file
In HenrikBengtsson/aroma: An R Object-oriented Microarray Analysis package

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Write a MicroarrayData object to file. By default, if not overridden by a method in a subclass, it writes the data to a tab-delimited file. Note that subclasses like GenePixData, ScanAlyzeData and SpotData do write files in their special file formats. To force such object of such classes to be written as tab-delimited file, do write.MicroarrayData(object, ...) instead.

1 2	## S3 method for class 'MicroarrayData' write(this, filename, path=NULL, slides=NULL, overwrite=FALSE, row.names=FALSE, sep=" ", ..., verbose=FALSE)

`filename`	The filename of the GPR file to be written.
`path`	The path to the GPR file.
`slides`	The slides to be written. If `NULL`, all slides are considered.
`overwrite`	If `TRUE`, an existing file is overwritten. Otherwise an exception is thrown.
`row.names`	If `TRUE`, row names are written, otherwise not.
`sep`	The separator between the cells.
`...`	Other arguments accepted by subclasses or which are passed to `write.table`.

Returns nothing.

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

To read one or more MicroarrayData files at once see *read(). For more information see MicroarrayData.

  # Loads the file 'gpr123.gpr' located in the data directory:
  gpr <- GenePixData$read("gpr123.gpr", path=system.file("data-ex", package="aroma"))

  # Writes the GenePix Results Data to a file named "temp.gpr". Note
  # that this file won't be exactly the same since a few lines,
  # specifying for instance the creator of the file, will be added.
  write(gpr, "temp.gpr", overwrite=TRUE)

  # Extracts the raw data from the gpr object and saves it to file.
  raw <- getRawData(gpr)
  write(raw, "temp.raw", overwrite=TRUE)
  file.show("temp.raw")