Chromeleon ASCII reader — read_chromeleon • chromConverter

Reads 'Thermo Fisher Chromeleon™ CDS' files into R.

Usage

read_chromeleon(
  path,
  format_out = c("matrix", "data.frame", "data.table"),
  data_format = c("wide", "long"),
  read_metadata = TRUE,
  metadata_format = c("chromconverter", "raw"),
  decimal_mark = NULL
)

Arguments

path: Path to file
format_out: Class of output. Either matrix, data.frame, or data.table.
data_format: Whether to return data in wide or long format.
read_metadata: Whether to read metadata from file.
metadata_format: Format to output metadata. Either chromconverter or raw.
decimal_mark: Which character is used as the decimal separator in the file. By default, decimal mark will be detected automatically, but it can also be manually set as "." or ",".

Value

A chromatogram in the format specified by format_out. (retention time x wavelength).

Author

Ethan Bass