https://github.com/cran/qpcR
Tip revision: 50b4350d7c8be8e5917ae3d0580ab19842dacf4e authored by Andrej-Nikolai Spiess on 08 August 1977, 00:00:00 UTC
version 1.1-1
version 1.1-1
Tip revision: 50b4350
pcrimport.Rd
\name{pcrimport}
\alias{pcrimport}
\title{Simple qPCR data import function (i.e. from text files or clipboard).}
\description{
Simple wrapper function to easily import qPCR data from the clipboard (default) or tab-delimited text files.
}
\usage{
pcrimport(file = "clipboard", sep = "\t", header = TRUE, quote = "",
dec = ".", colClasses = "numeric", ...)
}
\arguments{
\item{file}{the name of the file which the data are to be read from (full path).}
\item{sep}{the field separator character.}
\item{header}{a logical value indicating whether the file contains the names of the variables as its first line.}
\item{quote}{the set of quoting characters.}
\item{dec}{the character used in the file to denote decimal points.}
\item{colClasses}{character. A vector of classes to be assumed for the columns.}
\item{...}{further arguments to be passed on to \code{\link{read.table}}.}
}
\details{
For a more detailed description of the arguments see \code{\link{read.table}}.
}
\value{
A data frame containing a representation of the data in the file.
}
\author{
Andrej-Nikolai Spiess
}
\examples{
### paste some Excel data into the clipboard ###
\dontrun{
temp <- pcrimport()
}
### from a tab-delimited text file ###
\dontrun{
temp <- pcrimport("c:\\temp\\foo.txt")
}
}
\keyword{IO}
\keyword{file}