readSpotMetadata: Read the spot metadata from a gal file

Description Usage Arguments Value

View source: R/gal_parse_functions.R

Description

readSpotMetadata returns a dataframe of the contents in a gal file and adds array indices.

Usage

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Arguments

galFile

the name of a gal file to be read

Value

A dataframe with the contents of each spot in the gal file. The spots are converted from print block, row and column space to array row and column space. The array space is aligned with the print space. That is, the 1,1,1 position in the print space is the first row and first column of the array space. The Name and ID fields of spots that were not printed have their dashes replaced with the word blank.


kdaily/MEMA documentation built on May 20, 2019, 8:28 a.m.