concatFCS {CATALYST}R Documentation

FCS file Concatenation

Description

Concatenates all input data to a single file or object.

Usage

concatFCS(x, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'flowSet'
concatFCS(x, out_path = NULL, by_time = TRUE,
  file_num = FALSE, pars = NULL, desc = NULL)

## S4 method for signature 'character'
concatFCS(x, out_path = NULL, by_time = TRUE,
  file_num = FALSE)

## S4 method for signature 'list'
concatFCS(x, out_path = NULL, by_time = TRUE,
  file_num = FALSE)

Arguments

x

can be either a flowSet, a list of flowFrames, a character specifying the location of the FCS files to be concatinated, or a vector of FCS file names.

...

optional arguments.

out_path

character string. If specified, an FCS file of the concatenated data will be written to this location. If NULL (default), a flowFrame will be returned.

by_time

logical. Specifies whether files should be ordered by time of acquisition.

file_num

logical. Specifies whether a file number column should be added.

pars, desc

optional character vectors of channel names & descriptions to use when merging files.

Value

a flowFrame containing measurement intensities of all input data or a character of the FCS file name.

Author(s)

Helena Lucia Crowell crowellh@student.ethz.ch

Examples

data(raw_data)
concatFCS(raw_data)


[Package CATALYST version 1.4.2 Index]