readGPRHeaders {limma} | R Documentation

## Read GenePix Results File Header Information

### Description

Read the header information from a GenePix Results (GPR) file. This function is used internally by `read.maimages` and is not usually called directly by users.

### Usage

    readGPRHeaders(file)

### Arguments

`file` | character string giving file name, including path if not in current working directory

### Details

Output files produced by the image analysis software GenePix include a number of lines of header which contain information about the scanning process. This function extracts that information and locates the line where the intensity data begins.

### Value

A list with components corresponds to lines of header information. All components are character vectors.

### Author(s)

Gordon Smyth

### References

http://www.axon.com/gn_GenePix_File_Formats.html

### See Also

`read.maimages`

An overview of LIMMA functions to read data is given in 3.ReadingData.

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