readGAL(galfile=NULL,path=NULL,header=TRUE,sep="\t",quote="\"",skip=NULL,as.is=TRUE,...)NULL then a file with extension .gal is found in the directory specified by path.NULL then assumed to be the current working directory.TRUE then the first line after skip is assumed to contain column headings. If FALSE then a value should specified for skip.NULL then this number is determined by searching the file for column headings.TRUE then read in character columns as vectors rather than factors.read.tableas.is=FALSE, containing gene library identifiersas.is=FALSE, containing gene namesColumn is the fastest moving index, then Row, then Block.
Block, Column, Row and ID.
A Name column is usually included as well.
Other columns are optional.
See the Axon URL below for a detaile description of the GAL file format.This function reads in the data columns with a minimum of user information. In most cases the function can be used without specifying any of the arguments.
read.Galfile in the marray package.An overview of LIMMA functions for reading data is given in 03.ReadingData.
# readGAL()
# will read in the first GAL file (with suffix ".gal")
# found in the current working directory
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