| readSpotTypes {limma} | R Documentation |
Read a table giving regular expressions to identify different types of spots in the gene-dataframe.
readSpotTypes(file="SpotTypes.txt",path=NULL,sep="\t",check.names=FALSE,...)
file |
character string giving the name of the file specifying the spot types. |
path |
character string giving the directory containing the file. Can be omitted if the file is in the current working irectory. |
sep |
the field separator character |
check.names |
logical, if FALSE column names will not be converted to valid variable names, for example spaces in column names will not be left as is |
... |
any other arguments are passed to read.table |
The file is a text file with rows corresponding to types of spots and the following columns: SpotType gives the name for the spot type, ID is a regular expression matching the ID column, Name is a regular expression matching the Name column, and Color is the R name for the color to be associated with this type.
A data frame with columns
SpotType |
character vector giving names of the spot types |
ID |
character vector giving regular expressions |
Name |
character vector giving regular expressions |
Color |
character vector giving names of colors |
Gordon Smyth following idea of James Wettenhall
An overview of LIMMA functions for reading data is given in 03.ReadingData.