readDatfile {fitPoly} | R Documentation |
User-friendly wrapper for read.table
Description
A wrapper for read.table that has default parameter values for reading tab-separated files as used in packages fitPoly and fitPolyTools
Usage
readDatfile(file, header=TRUE, sep="\t", check.names=FALSE, ...)
Arguments
file |
the name of the file which the data are to be read from |
header |
a logical value indicating whether the file contains the names of the data.frame columns as its first line |
sep |
the field separator character |
check.names |
logical. If FALSE (default), column names are not checked.
This is important if column names are the names of samples, markers etc that
may not be syntactically valid variable names. |
... |
Further arguments to be passed to read.table |
Value
A data.frame containing a representation of the data in the file