[BioC] Example in SLqPCRdata package

Daren Tan darentan76 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 10:42:09 CEST 2009


In one of the example in SLqPCRdata package stated below, I am unsure
in the last line i.e. exprData <- normPCR(SLqPCRdata, c(3,4)), whether
SLqPCRdata should have been relData ? According to the help page of
normPCR, it requires a data.frame containing relative quantities.
SLqPCRdata contains the average take-off values, but relData contains
relative expression values for realtime quantitative RT-PCR data based
on take-off values.

data(SLqPCRdata)
relData <- apply(SLqPCRdata, 2, relQuantPCR)
geneStabM(relData[,c(3,4)])
exprData <- normPCR(SLqPCRdata, c(3,4))

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] SLqPCR_1.8.0       RColorBrewer_1.0-2



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