\name{methylumIDAT}
\alias{methylumIDAT}
\title{
methylumIDAT
}
\description{
Read a directory of methylumi idat files and return a \code{MethylumiSet}.
}
\usage{
methylumIDAT(barcodes = NULL, pdat = NULL, parallel = F, n = F, n.sd =
F, oob = T, idatPath=getwd(), ...)
}
%- maybe also 'usage' for other objects documented here.
\arguments{
  \item{barcodes}{
A vector of barcodes to read.  Either this argument or \code{pdat} must
be specified.
}
\item{pdat}{
  A data.frame describing the samples.  A special column named
  "barcodes" can be used to specify the barcodes to be read.
}
  \item{parallel}{
If TRUE, an attempt will be made to process using multiple cores on a
multicore machine.
}
  \item{n}{
%%     ~~Describe \code{n} here~~
}
  \item{n.sd}{
%%     ~~Describe \code{n.sd} here~~
}
  \item{oob}{
%%     ~~Describe \code{oob} here~~
}
\item{idatPath}{
  The path to the directory containing the idat files.
  }
  \item{\dots}{
%%     ~~Describe \code{\dots} here~~
}
}
\details{
Read a set of .idat files and return a \code{MethylumiSet} object.
}
\value{
A \code{MethylumiSet} object.
}
\author{
Tim Triche, Jr.
}
\seealso{
%% ~~objects to See Also as \code{\link{help}}, ~~~
}
\examples{
\dontrun{
if(require('IlluminaHumanMethylation450k.db')) {
  barcodes <- c('6005486014_R04C02',
              '6005486023_R05C01')
  lumi450k <- methylumIDAT(barcodes,idatPath=system.file('extdata/idat',package='methylumi')) # no normalization done
  sampleNames(lumi450k) <- c('TCGA1','TCGA2')
  show(lumi450k)
}
}
}
% Add one or more standard keywords, see file 'KEYWORDS' in the
% R documentation directory.
\keyword{ IO }