export,AbstractMassObject-method {MALDIquantForeign}

Export files

Description

This function provides a general interface to export AbstractMassObject-class objects (e.g. MassSpectrum-class, MassPeaks-class) into different file formats.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'AbstractMassObject'
export(x, file, type="auto", force=FALSE, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'list'
export(x, path, type, force=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

a AbstractMassObject-class object or a list of AbstractMassObject-class objects.

file

character, file name.

type

character, file format. If type is set to “auto” the file extension is used.

force

logical, If TRUE the file would be overwritten or path would be created.

path

character, path to directory in which the list of AbstractMassObject-class would be exported.

...

arguments to be passed to specific export functions.

Details

Specific export functions:

tab	exportTab
csv	exportCsv
imzML	exportImzMl
msd	exportMsd
mzML	exportMzMl

Author(s)

Sebastian Gibb

References

https://strimmerlab.github.io/software/maldiquant/

See Also

MassPeaks-class, MassSpectrum-class

Examples

## Not run: 
library("MALDIquant")
library("MALDIquantForeign")

s <- list(createMassSpectrum(mass=1:5, intensity=1:5),
          createMassSpectrum(mass=1:5, intensity=1:5))

## export a single spectrum
export(s[[1]], file="spectrum.csv")
## identical to exportCsv(s[[1]], file="spectrum.csv")

## export a list of spectra
export(s, path="spectra", type="csv")
## identical to exportCsv(s, path="spectra")

## End(Not run)