read.kinetic {fluoSurv}

Reads a kinetic file, as produced by a Biotek plate reader.

Description

Reads a kinetic file, as produced by a Biotek plate reader.

Usage

read.kinetic(name, path = NULL, readTime = TRUE, saveData = TRUE)

Arguments

name

The name of the file to be read

path

The path where the file is to be found

readTime

Should time data be read?

saveData

Should the resulting data.frame be saved?

Value

Returns a data.frame if saveData is set to FALSE. If saveData is set to TRUE, the data.frame is saved and the file name is returned.

Examples

## reads data. Warning: files are large, and this operation takes time!
d <- read.kinetic("kinetics_xenorhabdus_galleria.txt",
                     path=system.file('extdata', package = 'fluoSurv'),
                     saveData=FALSE)
str(d)

## saveData should rather be set to TRUE so that converted data are saved
## in a csv file and can be re-used later on.