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Loading and reformatting of MS data from Scaffold

Source: R/preprocessing.R
preprocessing_scaffold.Rd

Read a data file from Scaffold, select columns necessary for analysis, and return the reformatted data.

Usage

preprocessing_scaffold(fileName, dataSet = NULL)

Arguments

fileName

The name of the .xls file containing MS data (including the path to the file, if needed).

dataSet

The raw data set, if already loaded in R.

Value

A 2d dataframe.

Details

The function executes the following:

  1. Reads the file.

  2. Provides summary statistics and a histogram of all values reported in the data set.

  3. Selects columns that contain necessary information for the analysis.

  4. Re-formats the data to present individual proteins as columns and group replicates under each protein.

  5. Stores the data as a data.frame and prints the levels of condition and replicate to the user.