[BioC] Re: writing exprSet to a flat file

[Rafael A. Irizarry]

i think we need a basic write function for people who dont want to learn
to much R. especially if they want to import into things like genespring
etc...ill just write a simple one and put it in Biobase.

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Laurent Gautier wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:50:05PM -0500, Rafael A. Irizarry wrote:
> > is there (or are there plans of writing) a method for the exprSet
> > class that writes out expression values to a flat file? if not ill put one
> > in affy.
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> I think I saw a related post not too long ago in the bioconductor list.
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> I am not familiar enough with the exprSet to know if everything they include could be dumped in a flat file (sometimes objects can be put in files through serialization).
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> I would be in favor of incitating users to learn a bit of R too... having to solve, or ask how to do, things like 'how do I write expression values from an instance of exprSet in a file ?' appears to me like a good way to do it....
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