getGroups: Get Groups of Replicates

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also

View source: R/platereader.R

Description

groups wells by experiment annotations in the plate layout map (selected by option by), and returns a list of well IDs that are all replicates for these groups.

Usage

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getGroups(plate, by = "medium", order = FALSE, verb = TRUE)

Arguments

plate

the plate layout map, see readPlateMap

by

a list of column IDs of the plate layout

order

if TRUE groups will be alphabetically ordered

verb

if TRUE report messages are more detailed

Details

Calculates the distinct groups from the plate layout by the selected experimental parameters.

Value

Returns a list of well IDs for the identified grouping. This list can be used, e.g., in viewGroups(data,groups) or link{groupStats} to summarize data for these groups.

Author(s)

Rainer Machne raim@tbi.univie.ac.at

See Also

readPlateMap, viewGroups


raim/platexpress documentation built on Jan. 18, 2022, 1:41 p.m.