read_plates {plater}

Read multiple plater-formatted files and combine result into one data frame.

Description

A wrapper around read_plate that handles multiple plates and combines them all into a single data frame.

Usage

read_plates(files, plate_names = NULL, well_ids_column = "Wells", sep = ",")

Arguments

files

A character vector with the paths of one or more plater-formatted .csv files.

plate_names

A character vector the same length as files with the names to give the individual plates in the resulting data frame. Defaults to the file names (stripped of path and .csv).

well_ids_column

The name to give the column that will contain the well identifiers. Default "Wells".

sep

The character used to separate columns in the file (e.g. "," or ";"). Defaults to ",".

Value

Returns a data frame like that returned by read_plate, containing the data from all of the plates. The plates will be identified with a column called "Plate" containing the names given in plate_names.

Examples

# Combine multiple files into one tidy data frame
file1 <- system.file("extdata", "example-1.csv", package = "plater")
file2 <- system.file("extdata", "more-bacteria.csv", package = "plater")

# Data are stored in plate-shaped form
data <- read_plates(
   files = c(file1, file2),
   plate_names = c("Experiment 1", "Experiment 2"),
   well_ids_column = "Wells")

# Data from both plates are tidy and in the same data frame
head(data)