[BioC] Reading in mutiple files using readCtData

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Norm,

In that case you _really_ need to read An Introduction to R 
(http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf). If you are getting 
hung up on the low-level fundamentals of R, you should at least get up 
to speed on the basics, as you are going nowhere until you do.

Best,

Jim


On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 10:49:22 AM, Norm Allaire wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for your help. The later, I don't know how to make a character vector.
>
> Norm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James W. MacDonald [mailto:jmacdon at uw.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 10:46 AM
> To: Norm Allaire
> Cc: bioconductor at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [BioC] Reading in mutiple files using readCtData
>
> Hi Norm,
>
>   From ?readCtData:
>
> Arguments
>             files          character vector with the names of the files
> to be read.
>
> So are you asking if you can pass multiple files, or are you unsure how to make a character vector?
>
> Best,
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> On 2/26/2014 10:05 AM, Norm Allaire wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm new to R. I just installed the HTqPCR package and I'm trying to create a qPCRset object from 8 Fluidigm files. I got some help earlier to read in one file but now I need to read in the whole set. Also, when I read in the single file the sample names were listed as 1.file name, 2.file name etc. and I would like to know how to specify the correct names that are in the file. The previous command I used was:
>>> temp <- readCtData(files = "ALS_Plate1_Rep1_Results_1361960062.csv",
>>> path = "C:/Users/allairen/R/Fluidigm", n.features = 96 * 96, flag =
>>> 9, feature =5, type = 6, Ct =7, position= 1, skip=12, sep=",")
>> The files I would like to read in are:
>>
>> ALS_Plate1_Rep1_Results_1361960062
>> ALS_Plate1_Rep2_Results_1361960064
>> ALS_Plate1_Rep3_Results_1361960066
>> ALS_Plate1_Rep4_Results_1361960068
>> ALS_Plate2_Rep1_Results_1361960063
>> ALS_Plate2_Rep2_Results_1361960065
>> ALS_Plate2_Rep3_Results_1361960067
>> ALS_Plate2_Rep4_Results_1361960069
>>
>> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks so much,
>>
>> Norm
>>
>>
>> Norm Allaire
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