This function tries best to guess the flow parameter based on the keyword supplied by name It first does a complete word match(case insensitive) between name and flow channels and markers. If there are duplcated matches, throw the error. If no matches, it will try the partial match.

getChannelMarker(frm, name, ...)

Arguments

frm

flowFrame object

name

character the keyword to match

...

other arguments: not used.

Value

an one-row data.frame that contains "name"(i.e. channel) and "desc"(i.e. stained marker) columns.