readBeadSummaryTargets       package:beadarray       R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Read targets file for a BeadArray experiment into a dataframe.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     readBeadSummaryTargets(file = "beadSummaryTargets.txt", path = NULL,  header=T,sep="" )

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

    file: character string giving the name of the targets file.

    path: character string giving the directory containing the file.
          Can be omitted if the file is in the current working
          directory.

  header: if TRUE then header names will be taken from the text file

     sep: field separator character

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     A targets file defines the files containing bead summary
     information for a BeadArray experiment. Each file may describe
     either a single array, or a 96-well SAM. The function looks for a
     file called beadTargets.txt in the current working directory.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A dataframe containing the columns found in the text file

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Mark Dunning, Mike Smith

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     #beadTargets = readBeadSummaryTargets()

     #can also specify path

     #beadTargets = readBeadTargets(file="otherfile.txt", path="otherdirectory")

