Read FCS Header

A light weight FCS file header reader based on flowstate, trying to mimic flowCore.

Usage

readFCSheader(fcs.path, keyword = NULL)

Arguments

fcs.path

A character string specifying the file path (directory and file name) for the .fcs file to be read.

keyword

Optional argument specifying which keyword(s) to return if the whole set is not desired.

Value

A named list of keywords (metadata)

References

Laniewski, Nathan. flowstate. https://github.com/nlaniewski/flowstate

Ellis B, Haaland P, Hahne F, Le Meur N, Gopalakrishnan N, Spidlen J, Jiang M, Finak G (2025). flowCore: Basic structures for flow cytometry data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.flowCore https://bioconductor.org/packages/flowCore

See also

read.FCSheader