maCompPlate {marray} | R Documentation

## Generate plate IDs

### Description

This function generates plate IDs from the dimensions of the grid and spot matrices. Note that this function only applies to arrays with a regular plate layout, where the number of spots is a multiple of the number of wells on a plate (usually 96 or 384) and each well contributes exactly one spot. It should thus be used with caution.

### Usage

    maCompPlate(x, n=384)

### Arguments

`x` | object of class `"marrayLayout"`, `"marrayRaw"` and `"marrayNorm"`
`n` | object of class "numeric", number of wells in each plate, usually 384 or 96.

### Details

Having plate IDs may be useful for the purpose of normalization. Normalization by plate can be done using the function `maNormMain`.

### Value

a vector of plate IDs (`factor`).

### Author(s)

Yee Hwa (Jean) Yang, Sandrine Dudoit, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~sandrine.

### See Also

`marrayLayout`, `marrayRaw`, `marrayNorm`

### Examples

    L<-new("marrayLayout", maNgr=4, maNgc=4, maNsr=22, maNsc=24)
    plate<-maCompPlate(L,384)
    table(plate)
    maPlate(L)<-plate

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