[R] .gct file

[Randy Johnson]

If it is a text file ?read.table should provide enough details to read the
file into R. Based on the file format referenced below it shouldn't be too
hard to get at the parts you want.

Randy


On 7/19/05 1:06 PM, "Marc Schwartz (via MN)" <mschwartz at mn.rr.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 12:28 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 7/19/2005 12:10 PM, mark salsburg wrote:
>>> I have two files to compare, one is a regular txt file that I can read
>>> in no prob.
>>> 
>>> The other is a .gct file (How do I read in this one?)
>>> 
>>> I tried a simple
>>> 
>>> read.table("data.gct", header = T)
>>> 
>>> How do you suggest reading in this file??
>>> 
>> 
>> .gct is not a standard filename extension.  You need to know what is in
>> that file.  Where did you get it?  What program created it?
>> 
>> Chances are the easiest thing to do is to get the program that created
>> it to export in a well known format, e.g. .csv.
>> 
>> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> A quick Google search would suggest "Gene Cluster Text" file:
> 
> http://www.broad.mit.edu/cancer/software/genepattern/tutorial/gp_tutorial_file
> formats.html#gct
> 
> produced by Gene Pattern:
> 
> http://www.broad.mit.edu/cancer/software/genepattern/
> 
> If correct, I would point Mark to the Bioconductor folks for more
> information and assistance:
> 
> http://www.bioconductor.org/
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
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