extractWellNames: Try to get well names from a vector of filenames.

In twoddpcr: Classify 2-d Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) data and quantify the number of starting molecules

Description

If each of the given filenames are of the form "<PlateName>_<WellName>_Amplitude.csv", where <WellName> is of the form A01, B01, etc., then this function can extract the <WellName> component. Otherwise, the whole file name is assumed to be the well name.

Usage

extractWellNames(filenames)

Arguments

filenames

A character vector of filenames with .csv extension.

Value

A character vector of well names.

Author(s)

Anthony Chiu, [e-mail]

Examples

## Get the well names (recognised format).
extractWellNames(c("Sample_Plate_Name_G02_Amplitude.csv",
                   "Sample_Plate_Name_H02_Amplitude.csv",
                   "Sample_Plate_Name_A03_Amplitude.csv",
                   "Sample_Plate_Name_B03_Amplitude.csv"))

## Get the well names (unrecognised format).
extractWellNames(c("Sample_G02.csv",
                   "Sample_H02.csv",
                   "Sample_A03.csv",
                   "Sample_B03.csv"))

twoddpcr documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 5:49 p.m.