readProbeInfo           package:beadarray           R Documentation

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

     Given a text file and either 'BeadLevelList' or 'BeadSummaryList'
     this function reads the specified columns from the file and stores
     them in the genes matrix within the object.

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

     readProbeInfo(file, beadObject, columns = c("Target", "ProbeID"), header = TRUE, sep = ",")

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

    file: File containing information about the genes.

beadObject: An object of class 'BeadLevelList' or 'BeadSummaryList'.

 columns: Vector specifying the column names of the data that should be
          imported from 'file'.

  header: Boolean specifying if 'file' contains a header row.

     sep: Character specify the column seperator in 'file'

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

     Return an object of the same class as 'beadObject'

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

     Mike Smith

