searchIDATprefixes {sesame} | R Documentation

## Identify IDATs from a directory

### Description

The input is the directory name as a string. The function identifies all the IDAT files under the directory. The function returns a vector of such IDAT prefixes under the directory.

### Usage

    searchIDATprefixes(dir.name, recursive = TRUE, use.basename = TRUE)

### Arguments

`dir.name` | the directory containing the IDAT files.
`recursive` | search IDAT files recursively
`use.basename` | basename of each IDAT path is used as sample name This won't work in rare situation where there are duplicate IDAT files.

### Value

the IDAT prefixes (a vector of character strings).

### Examples

    ## only search what are directly under
    IDATprefixes <- searchIDATprefixes(
        system.file("extdata", "", package = "sesameData"))

    ## search files recursively is by default
    IDATprefixes <- searchIDATprefixes(
        system.file(package = "sesameData"), recursive=TRUE)

[Package sesame version 1.2.0 Index]