[BioC] Re: Limma

[Gordon Smyth]

Dear Pook,

At 01:57 AM 18/07/2003, Pook Veerachato wrote:
>Dear Dr.Smyth
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>Thank you very much for a software website. I already installed it. 
>However, I've some questions about using this software to ask you.
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>I tried to import my datafiles from the program "Imagene" (Biodiscovery) 
>into R. Imagene datafiles are saved as *.txt-files.
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>We used the "read.maimages" comand and were told from the program, that 
>there is no such command.

Do you understand that you have to load libraries in R before the commands 
in them become available? For example,

    library(limma)
    ?read.maimages

However limma does not at this stage support Imagene datafiles. You would 
have to read in the data yourself manually.

Gordon

>We typed it, as recommended in the User's guide for LIMMA.
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>It's somewhat depressive to fail at this early stage.
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>Any comments? Thanks for your patience and input.
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>With Best Regards,
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>pook
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