formatRt: Format Retention Time

In rformassspectrometry/MsCoreUtils: Core Utils for Mass Spectrometry Data

Format Retention Time

Description

These vectorised functions convert retention times from a numeric in seconds to/from a character as "mm:ss". rt2character() performs the numeric to character conversion while rt2numeric() performs the character to numeric conversion. formatRt() does one of the other depending on the input type.

Usage

rt2numeric(rt)

rt2character(rt)

formatRt(rt)

Arguments

rt	A vector of retention times of length > 1. Either a numeric() in seconds or a character() as "mm:ss" depending on the function.

Value

A reformatted retention time.

Author(s)

Laurent Gatto

Examples

## rt2numeric

rt2numeric("25:24")
rt2numeric(c("25:24", "25:25", "25:26"))

## rt2character

rt2character(1524)
rt2character(1)
rt2character(1:10)

## formatRt

formatRt(1524)
formatRt(1)
formatRt(1:10)
formatRt("25:24")
formatRt(c("25:24", "25:25", "25:26"))

rformassspectrometry/MsCoreUtils documentation built on Oct. 24, 2024, 1:52 p.m.