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Extract metadata as a data.frame from a list of chromatograms.

Usage

extract_metadata(
  chrom_list,
  what = c("instrument", "detector", "software", "method", "batch", "operator",
    "run_date", "sample_name", "sample_id", "injection_volume", "time_range",
    "time_interval", "detector_range", "data_format", "parser", "format_out"),
  format_out = c("data.frame", "tibble")
)

Arguments

chrom_list

A list of chromatograms with attached metadata (as returned by read_chroms with read_metadata = TRUE).

what

A character vector specifying the metadata elements to extract.

format_out

Format of object. Either data.frame or tibble.

Value

A data.frame or tibble (according to the value of format_out), with samples as rows and the specified metadata elements as columns.