> > If I wanted to add $patient_id = 100 to an existing FC file whats the exact code to do this? > also if I wanted to modify an existing value whats the exact code ? > library(flowCore) > x <- read.FCS('/path to your FCS file/') > x@description$patient_id <- '100' Works for both, adding a new keyword/value pair or replacing an existing value. On 10-06-25 03:00 AM, bioconductor-request@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: > ----------------------------- > Message: 10 > Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:25:38 -0700 (PDT) > From: David Lyon<david_lyon3@yahoo.com> > To: bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [BioC] flowcore > Message-ID:<224578.300.qm@web113519.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello > > > > can someone show me how to add metadata to a FC file eg: > > If I wanted to add $patient_id = 100 to an existing FC file whats the exact code to do this? > > also if I wanted to modify an existing value whats the exact code ? > > Thanks alot > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]