[BioC] [lumi] methylumIDAT : probleme to read idat files

Benilton Carvalho beniltoncarvalho at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 12:22:52 CET 2012


On 17 February 2012 11:02, Dylan Aïssi <dylan.aissi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Thank you for your response. Actually, my problem was entirely my fault
> because I misspecified an argument for methylumIDAT.
>
> So by replacing this line:
>
>> lumi450k<-methylumIDAT(barcodes,getwd())
>>
>
> By this:
>
>> lumi450k<-methylumIDAT(barcodes,idatPath=getwd())
>>
>
> The function work correctly.

The reason this works is that the 2nd argument on the function
definition is 'pdat'... so calling:

lumi450k<-methylumIDAT(barcodes,getwd())

is equivalent to:

lumi450k<-methylumIDAT(barcodes, pdat=getwd())

which is not what you want...

b



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