On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Mark Robinson <mrobin...@wehi.edu.au> wrote: > > Hi Sun. > > One of the handy features of aroma.affymetrix is that it pulls a lot > of information from the directories in which files reside (e.g. > platform, dataset name, etc). > > If you are on unix/mac osx, you can use symbolic links for this. > > For example, everything in your ./rawData/MYPLATFORM/MYDATASET
Correction: ./rawData/<full data set name>/<chip type>/ > directory would be a link to the location on disk where the file > resides. You could probably even write a script to create all the > symbolic links from the list of full pathnames in your text file ... > > I don't know how to do this on windows, but presumably there is > something similar. You can use Windows *.lnk Shortcuts. Not sure if it will work correctly for files, but should work for directories. /Henrik > > HTH, > Mark > > On 13/02/2009, at 11:24 AM, Wukong Sun wrote: > >> Dear Dr. Bengtsson: >> >> >> I am wondering whether aroma-affymetrix can read in CEL files that >> are scattered in several directories. >> For example, the user may want to provide a text file specifying the >> full paths of CEL files. >> The reason is that I want to process these CEL files together, >> however I don't want to copy them to one folder. >> >> Thanks. >> >> > >> > > ------------------------------ > Mark Robinson > Epigenetics Laboratory, Garvan > Bioinformatics Division, WEHI > e: m.robin...@garvan.org.au > e: mrobin...@wehi.edu.au > p: +61 (0)3 9345 2628 > f: +61 (0)3 9347 0852 > ------------------------------ > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ When reporting problems on aroma.affymetrix, make sure 1) to run the latest version of the package, 2) to report the output of sessionInfo() and traceback(), and 3) to post a complete code example. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "aroma.affymetrix" group. To post to this group, send email to aroma-affymetrix@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to aroma-affymetrix-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/aroma-affymetrix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---