[BioC] Importing SMD data

[Georgia Chan]

Hi all,
 I am a newbie to R and BioConductor and
 (at the moment :) have trouble importing
 SMD data to R, using read.SMD/read.SMD2
 
 In the working directory, I have 2 files:
 "14037.xls" with data for one array and
 its corresponding GAL file "14037.gal",
 produced by SMD.
 
 Below is the debug info from R.
 
 Mant thanks in advance,
 georgia
 
 
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 Output:
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 > fnames
 [1] "14037.xls"
 
 > read.SMD(fnames=fnames, path=path, DEBUG=TRUE)
 [1] "14037.xls"
 Generating layout from 14037.xls
 [1] "Reading Gal file"
 Error in "[.data.frame"(dat, , info.id) : undefined columns selected
 
 > read.SMD2(fnames=fnames, DEBUG=TRUE)
 Generating layout from 14037.xls
 Error in if (skip > 0) readLines(file, skip) :
         missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
 
 > readLines("14037.gal",30)
  [1] "ATF\t1.0"
  [2] "20\t5"
  [3] "\"Type=GenePix ArrayList V1.0\""
  [4] "\"BlockCount=16\""
  [5] "\"BlockType=0\""
  [6] "\"Block1= 400, 400, 100, 19, 225, 19, 225\""
  [7] "\"Block2= 4896, 400, 100, 19, 225, 19, 225\""
  [8] "\"Block3= 9392, 400, 100, 19, 225, 19, 225\""
  [9] "\"Block4= 13888, 400, 100, 19, 225, 19, 225\""
  [10] "\"Block5= 400, 4896, 100, 19, 225, 19, 225\""
  [11] "\"Block6= 4896, 4896, 100, 19, 225, 19, 225\""
  [12] "\"Block7= 9392, 4896, 100, 19, 225, 19, 225\""
  [13] "\"Block8= 13888, 4896, 100, 19, 225, 19, 225\""
  [14] "\"Block9= 400, 9392, 100, 19, 225, 19, 225\""
  [15] "\"Block10= 4896, 9392, 100, 19, 225, 19, 225\""