read.mzXML {CorrectOverloadedPeaks}

Read and write standard mzXML files.

Description

'read.mzXML' and 'write.mzXML' are copied from the caMassClass package which is no longer actively on CRAN.

Usage

read.mzXML(filename)

write.mzXML(mzXML, filename, precision = c("32", "64"))

new.mzXML()

Arguments

filename

The mzXML file name to be read or written.

mzXML

The generic mzXML object

precision

Either '32' or '64' byte.

Details

The main task of 'read.mzXML' and 'write.mzXML' functions is to extract and save scan data of mzXML files. In addition attempt is made to keep all other sections of mzXML file as unparsed XML code, so the data can be extracted latter or saved into new mzXML files. Those unparsed sections are stored as XML text.

Value

A generic R object of class mzXML for 'read.mzXML' and NULL for 'write.mzXML'.

Nothing. mzXML object is exported to filename. If it was imported using read.mzXML it should contain all previous fields.