\name{dnaCopySf} \alias{dnaCopySf} \title{Runs DNAcopy in parallel mode} \usage{ dnaCopySf(x, chrom, maploc, cores = 1, smoothing, ...) } \arguments{ \item{x}{A matrix with data of the copy number experiments} \item{chrom}{The chromosomes (or other group identifier) from which the markers came} \item{maploc}{The locations of marker on the genome} \item{cores}{Number of cores to use} \item{smoothing}{States if smoothing of the data should be done} \item{...}{Further parameter for the function segment of DNAcopy} } \value{ An instance of \code{\link[Biobase:ExpressionSet-class]{ExpressionSet}} containing the segments. } \description{ This function even works very well with ff matrices, } \examples{ load(system.file("exampleData/mlData.RData", package = "cn.farms")) mlData <- mlData[, 1:3] colnames(assayData(mlData)$L_z) <- sampleNames(mlData) segments <- dnaCopySf( x = assayData(mlData)$L_z, chrom = fData(mlData)$chrom, maploc = fData(mlData)$start, cores = 1, smoothing = FALSE) fData(segments)$data } \author{ Djork-Arne Clevert \email{okko@clevert.de} and Andreas Mitterecker \email{mitterecker@bioinf.jku.at} }