RFLPcombine {RFLPtools}

Combine RFLP data sets

Description

Function to combine an arbitrary number of RFLP data sets.

Usage

RFLPcombine(...)

Arguments

...

two or more data.frames with RFLP data.

Details

The data sets are combined using rbind.

If data sets with identical sample identifiers are given, the identifiers are made unique using make.unique.

Value

A data.frame with variables

Sample

character: sample identifier.

Band

integer: band number.

MW

integer: molecular weight.

Gel

character: gel identifier.

Author(s)

Fabienne Flessa [e-mail],
Alexandra Kehl [e-mail],
Matthias Kohl [e-mail]

References

Flessa, F., Kehl, A., Kohl, M. Analysing diversity and community structures using PCR-RFLP: a new software application. Molecular Ecology Resources 2013 Jul; 13(4):726-33.

See Also

RFLPdata

Examples

data(RFLPdata)
res <- RFLPcombine(RFLPdata, RFLPdata, RFLPdata)
RFLPplot(res, nrBands = 4)