read.FCSheader: Read the TEXT section of a FCS file

Description

Read (part of) the TEXT section of a Data File Standard for Flow Cytometry that contains FACS keywords.

Usage

read.FCSheader(files, path=".", keyword=NULL, emptyValue = TRUE)

Arguments

files

Character vector of filenames.

path

Directory where to look for the files.

keyword

An optional character vector that specifies the FCS keyword to read.

emptyValue

see link[flowCore]{read.FCS}

Value

to one FCS file.

Details

The function read.FCSheader works with the output of the FACS machine software from a number of vendors (FCS 2.0, FCS 3.0 and List Mode Data LMD). The output of the function is the TEXT section of the FCS files. The user can specify some keywords to limit the output to the information of interest.

Examples

Run this code

samp <- read.FCSheader(system.file("extdata",
   "0877408774.B08", package="flowCore"))
samp

samp <- read.FCSheader(system.file("extdata",
   "0877408774.B08", package="flowCore"), keyword=c("$DATE", "$FIL"))
samp