combine             package:matchprobes             R Documentation

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_i_n_t_o _o_n_e _A_f_f_y_B_a_t_c_h.

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The function takes two AffyBatches and their respective probe
     sequence information and merges the intensities from the matching
     probes only into one AffyBatch.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     combine(batch, probepkg, newcdf, verbose=TRUE)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

   batch: A 'list' of two AffyBatches.

probepkg: A character vector of length 2, containing the names of the
          probe sequences libraries (for example, 'hgu133aprobe') that
          go with the AffyBatches.

  newcdf: The name of the name CDF environment that is to be created.

 verbose: If TRUE, messages are printed to the console.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     This function is EXPERIMENTAL; no guarantee that the resulting
     data makes biological sense.

     You may want to have a look at the code of this function and at
     intermediate results.

     Presently the code is written for two chiptypes, but if necessary
     can now be easily generalized to 'n'>=2.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A list with two elements: 'dat', an 'AffyBatch', and 'cdf', an
     environment, which contains a "CDF" probe-set to probe mapping (as
     for ordinary genechips). cdf is obtrained by restricting the 
     probe-set to probe of the *second* 'batch' and 'probelib'.

     A vignette is being written.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     R. Gentleman, Wolfgang Huber

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

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