wtccc.sample.list {snpMatrix}R Documentation

read the sample list from the header of the WTCCC signal file format

Description

This is a convenience function for constructing the sample list from the header of a WTCCC signal file.

Usage

wtccc.sample.list(infile)

Arguments

infile One of the signal files in a set of 23 (it is advisable to use the smaller ones such as number 22, although it shouldn't matter).

Details

The header of a WTCCC signal file is like this:

  AFFYID RSID pos  AlleleA AlleleB 12999A2_A 12999A2_B ...

The first 5 fields are discarded. There after, every other token is retained, with the "_A" or "_B" part removed to give the sample list.

See also read.wtccc.signals for more details.

Value

The value returned is a character vector contain the sample names or the plate-well names as appropriate.

Author(s)

Hin-Tak Leung htl10@users.sourceforge.net

References

http://www.wtccc.org.uk

See Also

read.wtccc.signals


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