text2bin {TargetSearch} | R Documentation

## Convert RI files from text to binary format and viceversa.

### Description

This function converts a list of RI files (peak list files) in text (binary) format to binary (text) format.

### Usage

    text2bin(in.files, out.files=NULL,
    	columns=c("SPECTRUM","RETENTION_TIME_INDEX","RETENTION_TIME"))

    bin2text(in.files, out.files=NULL)

### Arguments

`in.files` | A character string naming the input files.
`out.files` | A character string naming the output files. If `NULL`, the input file extensions will be changed accordingly ("txt" to "dat" and viceversa).
`columns` | A numeric vector with the positions of the columns `SPECTRUM`, `RETENTION_TIME_INDEX`, and `RETENTION_TIME` or a character vector with the header names of those columns. This parameter is required only for `text2bin`.

### Details

The format of the input files is detected dinamically and error will be issued if it is incorrect.

Note that the respective `tsSample` object may need to be updated by using the method `fileFormat`.

### Value

A character vector of the created files.

### Author(s)

Alvaro Cuadros-Inostroza

### See Also

`ImportSamples`, `tsSample`, `RIcorrect`

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