spectramaxImport {RTCA} | R Documentation |
Import output files from Spectramax spectrophotometer (plate reader) into the list format compatible with the cellHTS2 package.
spectramaxImport(file, encoding="latin1")
file |
A Spectramax file |
encoding |
File character encoding, by default “latin1” |
The function imports output files from Spectramax plate reader, with which single-channel cell-based assays could be performed. Such assay includes WST-1 viability assay, which can be used to validate RTCA assay results.
A list of two items: one data frame (no name) and one character vector (txt). The data frame contains following columns:
well |
Well indices ([A-Z][0-9][0-9] format) on the microtitre plate |
val |
Value of each well |
The character vector txt contains a copy of the file contents.
Jitao David Zhang <jitao_david.zhang@roche.com>
cellHTS2 package documentation.
wstFiles <- dir(system.file("extdata", package="RTCA"), pattern="^WST.*csv$", full.names=TRUE) spectramaxImport(wstFiles[1]) ## NOT RUN ## spectramaxImport also supports multiple files, in which case the ## result is a list of individual lists spectramaxImport(wstFiles) ## END NOT RUN