MALDIquantForeign (version 0.14.1)

importTxt: Import text files

Description

This function imports different text file formats into MassSpectrum-class or MassPeaks-class objects.

Usage

importTxt(path, ...)
importTab(path, ...)
importCsv(path, ...)

Value

a list of MassSpectrum-class or MassPeaks-class objects (depending on the centroided argument).

Arguments

path

character, path to directory or file which should be read in.

...

arguments to be passed to read.table.

Author

Sebastian Gibb

Details

importTab, importTxt and importCsv use read.table with different defaults.

References

https://strimmerlab.github.io/software/maldiquant/

See Also

MassSpectrum-class, MassPeaks-class, read.table

Examples

library("MALDIquant")
library("MALDIquantForeign")

## get example directory
exampleDirectory <- system.file("exampledata", package="MALDIquantForeign")

## import txt files
s <- importTxt(exampleDirectory)

## import csv files
s <- importCsv(exampleDirectory)