read.FCSheader: Read the TEXT section of a FCS file

In RGLab/flowCore: flowCore: Basic structures for flow cytometry data

Read the TEXT section of a FCS file

Description

Read (part of) the TEXT section of a Data File Standard for Flow Cytometry that contains FACS keywords.

Usage

read.FCSheader(files, path = ".", keyword = NULL, ...)

Arguments

files	Character vector of filenames.
path	Directory where to look for the files.
keyword	An optional character vector that specifies the FCS keyword to read.
...	other arguments passed to link[flowCore]{read.FCS}

Details

The function read.FCSheader works with the output of the FACS machine software from a number of vendors (FCS 2.0, FCS 3.0 and List Mode Data LMD). The output of the function is the TEXT section of the FCS files. The user can specify some keywords to limit the output to the information of interest.

Value

A list of character vectors. Each element of the list correspond to one FCS file.

Author(s)

N.Le Meur

See Also

link[flowCore]{read.flowSet}, link[flowCore]{read.FCS}

Examples

samp <- read.FCSheader(system.file("extdata",
   "0877408774.B08", package="flowCore"))
samp

samp <- read.FCSheader(system.file("extdata",
   "0877408774.B08", package="flowCore"), keyword=c("$DATE", "$FIL"))
samp

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