R: Read a Set of .CEL Files and Phenotypic Data

read.affy {simpleaffy}

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Read a Set of .CEL Files and Phenotypic Data

Description

Reads the specified file, which defines phenotypic data for a set of .CEL files. Reads the specified files into an AffyBatch object and then creates a phenoData object, defining the experimental factors for those chips.

Usage

read.affy(covdesc = "covdesc",path=".", ...)

Arguments

`covdesc`	A white space delimited file suitable for reading as a `data.frame`. The first column (with no column name) contains the names(or paths to) the .CEL files to read. Remaining columns (with names) represent experimental factors for each chip. these become elements of the `phenoData` object.
`...`	extra functions to pass on to `ReadAffy`
`path`	The path to prefix the filenames with before calling `ReadAffy`

Value

An AffyBatch object

Author(s)

Crispin J Miller

References

http://bioinformatics.picr.man.ac.uk/

Examples

 
  ## Not run: 
    eset <- read.affy(); # read a set of CEL files
    eset.rma <- call.exprs(eset,"rma");   
  
## End(Not run)

[Package simpleaffy version 2.54.0 Index]