readABT {AntibodyTiters}

Reading an xlsx file and examining the validity of the dataset.

Description

With this function, a specifically formatted xlsx file can be loaded. After validation of the file, 'pmax' and other key values were examined for the following analysis. The output is an ABT object. An object of this class is a list with four contents named DATA, pmax, longestFromSecond and shortestFromSecond. DATA is a data.frame. The other three are integer objects. These values are used for the plotting functions plotAllABT and plotEachABT.

Usage

readABT(fileName = "xxx.xlsx", attribNumeric = "Age")

Arguments

fileName

a file name to be read.

attribNumeric

a character vector specifying attribute columns to have numeric values.

Value

an ABT-class object: see the Description above for the detail of this class.

Examples

# inData <- readABT(fileName = "xxx.xlsx")