Parse New Plate File — parse_new_plate

Parses a file that satisfies the New Plate format

parse_new_plate_file(filepath, expand_path = FALSE)

Arguments

filepath: path to file
expand_path: logical whether or not to expand a path from '~' to the fully qualified name

returns list of specimen entries with locations from file

A csv file is New Plate format if it contains the columns:

Well	Barcode	UID	Specimen Type	Study Short Code	Date (optional)	Comments (optional)
...	...	...	...	...	...	...