write.spot {sma} | R Documentation

## Writing in Data Generated by the Image Analysis Package Spot

### Description

Function writes in a data file in a tab delimited table format.

### Usage

    write.spot(x, imageid, batch="output")

### Arguments

`x` | the object to be written, typically a data frame. If not, it is attempted to create one from it.
`imageid` | integer value; the index of the slide which is considered
`batch` | character string, this refers to the name of a collection of experiments. The default batch name is "output".

### Details

This function writes the data in for each imageid, assigning each file the filename which takes the default form of "output".imageid.spot. The column names of x are written along with x in the table format

### Author(s)

Jessica Mar

### References

Spot manual http://www.cmis.csiro.au/iap/Spot/spotmanual.htm

### See Also

`write.table`

### Examples

    ## Setting up the data
    ## library(Spot)
    ## SetParameters("mouse")
    ## Here is what you should see:
    ## Enter number of rows of grids per image (ngrid.r): 4
    ## Enter number of columns of grids per image (ngrid.c): 4
    ## Enter number of rows of spots per grid (nspot.r): 19
    ## Enter number of columns of spots per grid (nspot.c): 21
    ## Enter top/bottom translation tolerance, default is 50 (tolerance.r): 20
    ## Enter left/right translation, default is 50 (tolerance.c): 30
    ## Initialization complete

    ##Inputting Image Data
    ## SetImages("mouse")
    ## Combining the red and green channels for the first slide
    ## mouse.array <- Spots("mouse", 1)

    ## Calling the function to write the data in
    ## write.spot(mouse.array, 1, "mouse")

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