[R] .gct file

[Marc Schwartz (via MN)]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:08 -0500, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote:
> For the TAB delimited columns, adjust the 'sep' argument to:
> 
> read.table("data.gct", skip = 2, header = TRUE, sep = "\t")
> 
> The 'quote' argument is by default:
> 
> quote = "\"'"
> 
> which should take care of the quoted strings and bring them in as a
> single value.
> 
> The above presumes that the header row is also TAB delimited. If not,
> you may have to set 'skip = 3' to skip over the header row and manually
> set the column names.

One correction. If the final para applies and you need to use 'skip =
3', you would also need to leave out the 'header = TRUE' argument, which
defaults to FALSE.

Marc