readGPRHeaders {limma}R Documentation

Read GenePix Results File Header Information

Description

Read the header information from a GenePix Results (GPR) file. This function is used internally by read.maimages and is not usually called directly by users.

Usage

readGPRHeaders(file)

Arguments

file character string giving file name, including path if not in current working directory

Details

Output files produced by the image analysis software GenePix include a number of lines of header which contain information about the scanning process. This function extracts that information and locates the line where the intensity data begins.

Value

A list with components corresponds to lines of header information. All components are character vectors.

Author(s)

Gordon Smyth

References

http://www.axon.com/gn_GenePix_File_Formats.html

See Also

read.maimages

An overview of LIMMA functions to read data is given in 3.ReadingData.


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