[BioC] Limma: import files with genes missing

[Daniel Brewer]

I am trying to use limma to import a series of bluefuse post processed
files.  This is the command I am using:

CGHraw <- read.maimages(CGHFiles,source="bluefuse",
wt.fun=f,annotation=c("ID","NAME","POSITION","CHROMOSOME"),other.columns=c("NORMFACTOR","COPY
#"))

The problem is that each of these post processed files only contain the
genes that pass the QA and so different files have different probes.  I
believe that limma finds all the common probes between the files and
then only imports for them.  I would like to do the reverse, importing
all the probes that appear in any file and setting the value where they
do not appear to NA.

Any way of doing this?

I have tried importing the files separately and then merging, but that
just uses the the probe list from the first file.

Thanks

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Daniel Brewer, Ph.D.
Institute of Cancer Research
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