searchIDATprefixes {sesame} | R Documentation |
The input is the directory name as a string. The function identifies all the IDAT files under the directory. The function returns a vector of such IDAT prefixes under the directory.
searchIDATprefixes(dir.name, recursive = TRUE, use.basename = TRUE)
dir.name |
the directory containing the IDAT files. |
recursive |
search IDAT files recursively |
use.basename |
basename of each IDAT path is used as sample name This won't work in rare situation where there are duplicate IDAT files. |
the IDAT prefixes (a vector of character strings).
## only search what are directly under IDATprefixes <- searchIDATprefixes( system.file("extdata", "", package = "sesameData")) ## search files recursively is by default IDATprefixes <- searchIDATprefixes( system.file(package = "sesameData"), recursive=TRUE)