read.spot {genArise} | R Documentation

## Read Spot from File

### Description

Read all file, but only extract the interested columns and create a Spot object.

### Usage

    read.spot(file.name, cy3, cy5, bg.cy3, bg.cy5, ids, symdesc, header =
    FALSE, sep = "\t", is.ifc = FALSE, envir)

### Arguments

`file.name` | a connection or a character string giving the name of the file to read where each column represent the spot components.
`cy3` | column that represent Cy3.
`cy5` | column that represent Cy5.
`bg.cy3` | column that represent BgCy3.
`bg.cy5` | column that represent BgCy5.
`ids` | column that represent Id.
`symdesc` | (optional) identifier besides Id column.
`header` | the logical value of the header input file
`sep` | the separator in the inputfile
`is.ifc` | If is.ifc = TRUE this experiment was done in the Unit of Microarray from Cellular Phisiology Institute.
`envir` | Environment where are the genArise variables. You don't need to specify this argument.

### See Also

`write.spot`.

[Package genArise version 1.20.0 Index]