init.read.exp: Reads the Output of the Computed Statistics

Description Usage Arguments Value Warning Author(s) References Examples

Description

Function displays the 30 measurements computed by the program Spot for each gene in the slide being considered.

Usage

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init.read.exp(batch, imageid, sep="\t", header=TRUE, ...)

Arguments

batch

batch name of the experiment

imageid

integer value; the index of the slide which is considered

sep

the field separator character; the columns of the file will be separated by this character.

header

a logical value indicating whether the file contains the names of the variables as its first line.

...

graphical parameters may also be supplied as arguments to the function (see par).

Value

A matrix containing the 30 columns of computed measurements, corresponding to the rows of different genes in the specified slide.
Details regarding these measurements can be found at http://www.cmis.csiro.au/iap/Spot/spotoutput.htm.

Warning

The code in the example is not directly executable as it draws upon a particular set of data. This data may be downloaded from http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/terry/zarray/Software/smacode.html and when loaded appropriately into the user's directory, this example should be executable in its current form.

Author(s)

Yee Hwa Yang, yeehwa@stat.berkeley.edu

References

Spot manual http://www.cmis.csiro.au/iap/Spot/spotmanual.htm

Examples

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## apoa1.info <- init.read.exp("apoa1", 1) ## obtains the matrix
## of 30 measurements for all the genes spotted on slide 1 of the MouseArray
## experiment.

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