annotation: Accessing annotation information

Description Usage Arguments See Also Examples

Description

Get or set the annotation information contained in an object.

Usage

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annotation(object, ...)
annotation(object, ...) <- value

Arguments

object

An object containing annotation information.

...

Additional arguments, for use in specific methods.

value

The annotation information to set on object.

See Also

Examples

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annotation
showMethods("annotation")

library(Biobase)
showMethods("annotation")
selectMethod("annotation", "eSet")

Example output

Loading required package: parallel

Attaching package: 'BiocGenerics'

The following objects are masked from 'package:parallel':

    clusterApply, clusterApplyLB, clusterCall, clusterEvalQ,
    clusterExport, clusterMap, parApply, parCapply, parLapply,
    parLapplyLB, parRapply, parSapply, parSapplyLB

The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    IQR, mad, sd, var, xtabs

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    Filter, Find, Map, Position, Reduce, anyDuplicated, append,
    as.data.frame, basename, cbind, colMeans, colSums, colnames,
    dirname, do.call, duplicated, eval, evalq, get, grep, grepl,
    intersect, is.unsorted, lapply, lengths, mapply, match, mget,
    order, paste, pmax, pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int, rank, rbind,
    rowMeans, rowSums, rownames, sapply, setdiff, sort, table, tapply,
    union, unique, unsplit, which, which.max, which.min

standardGeneric for "annotation" defined from package "BiocGenerics"

function (object, ...) 
standardGeneric("annotation")
<environment: 0x1bc9868>
Methods may be defined for arguments: object
Use  showMethods("annotation")  for currently available ones.
Function: annotation (package BiocGenerics)
<No methods>

Welcome to Bioconductor

    Vignettes contain introductory material; view with
    'browseVignettes()'. To cite Bioconductor, see
    'citation("Biobase")', and for packages 'citation("pkgname")'.

Function: annotation (package BiocGenerics)
object="eSet"

Method Definition:

function (object, ...) 
{
    .local <- function (object) 
    object@annotation
    .local(object, ...)
}
<environment: namespace:Biobase>

Signatures:
        object
target  "eSet"
defined "eSet"

BiocGenerics documentation built on April 17, 2021, 6:01 p.m.