[BioC] problems loading imagene data with limma

[Ingunn Berget]

Hello all

I want to load imagene data with limma and have encountered problems

I have used the following command to read the data, and get an error:

> RG <- read.imagene(files, columns = list( f="Signal Mean",b ="Background Mean"), path=rawdata)
Read header information
Read H:/Prosjekter/ExpressionSalmon/pilotstudyHanna/Rawdata/JA005_2498Cy3.txt 
Error in RG$G[, i] <- obj[, columns$f] : 
  number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length


files: data frame with file names for the rawdata, 10 rows and 2 columns, one column for the Cy3 and one for the Cy5 files
rawdata:  String which defines the path


I have tried different solutions that I have found in the mailing archives, but they did not help.
Finally I discovered one column in the raw data control called "control" which were empty for all rows in the file I checked. I tried to delete this column in both of the raw data files for this array, and 
Used

files2 <- c("testCy3","testCy5")
RG <- read.imagene(files2, columns = list( f="Signal Mean",b ="Background Mean"), path=rawdata)

This worked well for the array I tried it on (testCy3 and testCy5 are the modified rawdata files)
Now I can of course do this for all arrays, but modifying 20 files is boring and in the next experiment there will more arrays.

Question 1: Anybody who knows how I can solve this problem more elegantly?
Question 2: What is this "control" column in the Imagene files?

Best regards
 
Ingunn Berget (Dr. Scient)
UMB, box 5003, IHA
1432 Ås
Norway

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