[BioC] excel plugins with BioC, anyone?

[Francois Pepin]

Hi Steven,

That page isn't quite what you wanted, I think. It had one plugin called
exprSetBuilder. You can look at the Google cache:
http://64.233.167.104/search?
q=cache:6lhZbkx5tIkJ:www.bioconductor.org/excel/excel.html

You can easily create a Bioconductor script that imports the excel data
properly (just export the excel file as a csv file). If the Excel files
are consistent, then the conversion shouldn't be problematic.

You could also look at 
http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/dcom/
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/contrib/extra/excel/

I've never tried any of those but if you're planning on using Excel as
your main workhorse, it's probably closer to what you want.

Francois

On Thu, 2005-14-07 at 14:51 +0200, Steven Van Vooren wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> Like so many people, we analyse our microarray data primarily in Excel, 
> and want to integrate our workflow more tightly with custom tools. The 
> transfer of data between Excel and BioC is manual and hence error prone.
> 
> Does anyone have expericence in building MS Excel plugins that rely on 
> BioConductor?
> 
> I noticed http://www.bioconductor.org/excel/excel.html has one plugin, 
> but it's a dead link.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steven
>