getBrukerMCFAllMetadata {rtms}

Retrieve all metadata values from a Bruker MCF file

Description

Retrieves a table of all metadata values (including instrument data, acquisition parameters, processing and analysis directives, etc.) for a specific acquisition from a Bruker multi-acquisition MCF directory (represented by an rtmsBrukerMCFReader object).

Usage

getBrukerMCFAllMetadata(reader, index)

Arguments

reader

An RTMS reader object of class rtmsBrukerMCFReader

index

A single numeric index specifying which acquisition the sample set should be extracted from

Value

A data frame with all metadata parameters for the acquisition. The data frame will have five columns: Index, the numeric index of the acquisition; PermanentName, the internal identifier of the parameter in Bruker software systems; GroupName, the group of parameters that each value belongs to; DisplayName, the string used to specify the parameter to users (i.e. how the parameter would be labelled in a user interface); and Value, a character column containing the value of each metadata parameter. Numeric quantities will also be returned as strings, with units if appropriate.