beadLevelData-class {beadarray} | R Documentation

## Class "beadLevelData"

### Description

A class for storing red and green channel foreground and background intensities from an Illumina experiment.

### Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form `new("beadLevelData")`, but are usually created by `readIllumina`.

### Slots/List Components

Objects of this class contain the following slots

`beadData`: | A list of arrays, indexed by array name. Each item in this list is itself a list, containing enviroments holding the data for that array.
`sectionData`: | a list containing information. Each item in the list is a data frame containing one row for each section
`experimentData`: | a list containing the annotation of the platform, link to the sdf file and type of data (slide or Sentrix Array Matrix)
`history`: | Character vector storing the operations performed on this object.

### Methods

show(beadLevelData)

  Printing method for BeadLevelList

`sectionNames(object,arrays=NULL)`

  Returns the strip/array names from a

`numBeads(object,arrays=NULL)`

  Returns the number of beads on selected `arrays`

### Accessing data from the class

`getBeadData`

  retrieve data

`insertBeadData`

  Input or modify existing data

### Author(s)

Mark Dunning, Mike Smith

### See Also

`readIllumina`

### Examples

    if(require(beadarrayExampleData)){

    data(exampleBLData)

    sectionNames(exampleBLData)

    head(exampleBLData[[1]])

    getBeadData(exampleBLData, array=1, what="Grn")[1:10]

    }

[Package beadarray version 2.38.0 Index]