See also the rflowcyt packages for R in BioConductor, which I
developed when I was at the University of Washington, which provide a
"read.FCS" tool.
On 8/25/05, Doug Bolgiano <DougB@psbc.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to input data from a flow cytometery file (format FCS 2.0) to
> S-Plus. The data is integer valued, written as binary, 2-byte integers.
> S-Plus (as I understand) only reads and writes 4-byte integers.
>
> As a work around, I read the data into S-Plus as 4-byte integers and then
> transform each 4-byte integer to the corresponding 2 2-byte integers. This
> works fine as long as the byte length of the data vector is a multiple of 4.
> When it is not, I get an error for trying to read past the end of the file.
> Can anyone suggest a work around? Thanks.
>
> Doug Bolgiano
> Research Division
> Puget Sound Blood Center
> Seattle, WA
>
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best,
-tony
"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily
roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
A.J. Rossini
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