read.qPCRtable: read qPCR data table with Ct values. See "Details".

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s)

View source: R/qPCR.R

Description

Read qPCR Ct data

Usage

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read.qPCRtable(fname, na.value = 40, ...)

Arguments

fname

file name (path to Ct data file)

na.value

Number. If Ct is NA or greater than this value, set to this value.

...

Parameters passed to read.table function.

Details

Ct values are exported from qPCR machine. Ct values should have labels of well index, gene name, sample tags and repeat number. Arrange of data: - save data in csv or tab-delim format - required columns: "Well", "Ct", "gene" and "rep.num" - sample labels (required) can be put in a single "sample" column, or presented in multi columns named with "ds.xxxx" pattern. - duplicated well label ("Well" column) are not allowed - all samples should have tested same list of genes of identical repeats. - avoid using space and other special character in column names.

Value

list of data.ht (qPCRset) and data.ddct (ddCt) objects.

Author(s)

ZG Zhao


zgzhao/Xtools documentation built on May 22, 2021, 3:37 a.m.