import.Agilent.GeneView.Experiment: Import a collection of GeneView files

In drmjc/microarrays: A collection of microarray and genomic helper code.

Description

Import a set of Agilent GeneView files that logically form an experiment.

Usage

  import.Agilent.GeneView.Experiment(files, names,
    debug = FALSE)

Arguments

files	the file names. (These will NOT be reordered)
names	if specified, then these names will be used in the column names of the data.frames; if NULL, then a name based on the filename will be used
debug	logical

Details

This first imports each GeneView file, the collates the information into 3 data.frames, with ngenes x nsamples, called:
value: the gTotalGeneSignal column
error: the gTotalGeneError column
detected: the gIsDetected column
In addition to these, there is a vector from the ControlType column (which is identical across all arrays), and a vector called ProbeIDs.

Value

a list with 5 elements as indicated in Details.

Author(s)

Mark Cowley, 2008-08-01

drmjc/microarrays documentation built on May 15, 2019, 2:26 p.m.