readAgilent           package:arrayQuality           R Documentation

_E_x_t_r_a_c_t_i_o_n _o_f _m_e_a_s_u_r_e_s _f_r_o_m _A_g_i_l_e_n_t (._t_x_t) _f_i_l_e_s.

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This component reads an Agilent file (.txt) and returns columns
     used for quality control.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     readAgilent(fnames = NULL, path= ".", DEBUG=FALSE, skip = 0, sep ="\t",
     quote="\"",controlId=c("ProbeName"), ...)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

  fnames: A "character" string naming the input file.

    path: a "character" string representing the data directory.  By
          default this is set to the current working directory (".").

   DEBUG: If 'TRUE', debug statements are printed.

    skip: Number of lines to skip in the gpr files.

     sep: A "character" string defining the type of separation for the
          columns in the gpr files.

   quote: A "character" string defining the type of quote in the gpr
          files.

controlId: Character string. Name of the column of the  file used to
          define controls.

     ...: additional arguments.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A list of vectors containing information extracted from the
     Agilent file

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Agnes Paquet

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'slideQuality', 'agQuality', 'globalQuality'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

