read.plates {ELISAtools}

Read the ELISA OD files

Description

Read the ELISA OD file to parse the ODs.

Usage

read.plates(
  fileName,
  annotations,
  num.plate = 1,
  batchID,
  expID,
  date = NA_character_
)

Arguments

fileName

characters containing file name of OD data

annotations

list of data containing annotations of the plates

num.plate

numeric number of OD plates in the OD file.

batchID

characters specify the batchID read from the design file

expID

characters specify the expID or plateID read from the design file

date

characters the date running the ELISA exps.

Details

The input is a text file imported from the sdf file. The file may contain multiple plates of OD. We will parse each file section and then read them according to the annotation to load the data. We assume for each file the data are for the same batch and experiment. If otherwise, please split the file into different ones.

Value

an object of elisa_run holding data and annotations for one or multiple plates.

Examples

#get example annotation file path from the system folder
ann<-system.file("extdata", "annote.txt", package="ELISAtools")
std.conc<-system.file("extdata", "stdConc.txt", package="ELISAtools")

#read them in and there are 2 plates.
annotations<-read.annotations(annotation=ann,  std.conc=std.conc, num.plate=2)

#now start reading the OD plate file
fileName <-system.file("extdata", "Assay_3_and_4.txt", package="ELISAtools")
plates<-read.plates(fileName, annotations=annotations, num.plate=2, batchID="b1", expID="e1")