get.celfile.dates {affyio} | R Documentation |
Extract Dates from CEL files
Description
This function reads the header information for a series of CEL files then extracts and returns the dates.
Usage
get.celfile.dates(filenames, ...)
Arguments
filenames |
a vector of characters with the CEL filenames. May be fully pathed. |
... |
further arguments passed on to |
Details
The function uses read.celfile.header
to read in the header of each file. The ScanDate
component is then parsed to extract the date.
Note that an assumption is made about the format. Namely, that dates are in the Y-m-d or m/d/y format.
Value
A vector of class Date
with one date for each celfile.
Author(s)
Rafael A. Irizarry <rafa@jimmy.harvard.edu>
See Also
See Also as read.celfile.header
.
[Package affyio version 1.66.0 Index]