This function receives a path to a folder that contains data for several plates. Each plate should have its own file.
Usage
read_multiple_plates(path_target, time_vector = c(), sep = "\t")
Arguments
- path_target
The path to plate_file.
- time_vector
A numeric vector that indicates the Time at which each measurement was taken. If empty then the Time column from one of the plates is taken as reference.
- sep
The delimiter character that separates columns of each file in path_target
Value
A list of two dataframes. An "od_data" dataframe with a common time column and each growth curve in a separate column named with it's "curve_id" (plate_name_well).
Also a "metadata" dataframe indicating the well and the original plate from which each "curve_id" is gathered from.