On third viewing, i do need .tifs to get my graphics working.   What i need to know is -   Can i make the graphics (with this package or by any other means) using only .txt file, since these are the only files i have?   Cheers!  --- On Thu, 9/12/10, Mark Dunning wrote: From: Mark Dunning Subject: Re: [BioC] Complete newbie - reconstruct array image with only data file? To: "D M" Cc: bioconductor@r-project.org Date: Thursday, 9 December, 2010, 17:14 Hi, I'm not clear what you mean by rebuilding the image? beadarray is able to create false-colour representations of the array surface in order to check for spatial artefacts, if that's what you mean. Please see the beadarray vignette for details Regards, Mark On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:07 PM, D M wrote: > Hi all > > So sorry to be a total newbie, but i'm just finding my feet with R. > >  I heard on the grapevine i could recreate a scanned microarray image, or at > least get a good graphic of it from a just a data file. > > I have .txt files for illumina beadarrays but no images cos the service we > used didn't send them. The 'beadarray' package seems to require TIFFs to get > the graphic output. > > Does anone know of a way/a package i can use to rebuild the image? > > Many thanks! > > > > > > >        [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]