cbind: Combine objects by rows or columns

In BiocGenerics: S4 generic functions used in Bioconductor

Description

rbind and cbind take one or more objects and combine them by columns or rows, respectively.

NOTE: This man page is for the rbind and cbind S4 generic functions defined in the BiocGenerics package. See ?base::cbind for the default methods (defined in the base package). Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects (typically vector-like or matrix-like) not supported by the default methods.

Usage

rbind(..., deparse.level=1)
cbind(..., deparse.level=1)

Arguments

...	One or more vector-like or matrix-like objects. These can be given as named arguments.
deparse.level	See ?base::cbind for a description of this argument.

Value

See ?base::cbind for the value returned by the default methods.

Specific methods defined in Bioconductor packages will typically return an object of the same class as the input objects.

See Also

• base::cbind for the default rbind and cbind methods.

• showMethods for displaying a summary of the methods defined for a given generic function.

• selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.

• rbind,RectangularData-method and cbind,DataFrame-method in the S4Vectors package for examples of specific rbind and cbind methods (defined for RectangularData derivatives and DataFrame objects, respectively).

• BiocGenerics for a summary of all the generics defined in the BiocGenerics package.

Examples

rbind  # note the dispatch on the '...' arg only
showMethods("rbind")
selectMethod("rbind", "ANY")  # the default method

cbind  # note the dispatch on the '...' arg only
showMethods("cbind")
selectMethod("cbind", "ANY")  # the default method

library(S4Vectors)
showMethods("rbind")
## The rbind() method for RectangularData derivatives:
selectMethod("rbind", "RectangularData")
## The cbind() method for DataFrame objects:
selectMethod("cbind", "DataFrame")

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’:

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

standardGeneric for "rbind" defined from package "BiocGenerics"

function (..., deparse.level = 1) 
standardGeneric("rbind")
<bytecode: 0x55ea1d896e38>
<environment: 0x55ea1d88d1f0>
Methods may be defined for arguments: ...
Use  showMethods("rbind")  for currently available ones.
Function: rbind (package BiocGenerics)
...="ANY"

Method Definition (Class "derivedDefaultMethod"):

function (..., deparse.level = 1) 
.Internal(rbind(deparse.level, ...))
<bytecode: 0x55ea1d89aaf0>
<environment: namespace:base>

Signatures:
        ...  
target  "ANY"
defined "ANY"
standardGeneric for "cbind" defined from package "BiocGenerics"

function (..., deparse.level = 1) 
standardGeneric("cbind")
<bytecode: 0x55ea1e13c6b0>
<environment: 0x55ea1e12d2f8>
Methods may be defined for arguments: ...
Use  showMethods("cbind")  for currently available ones.
Function: cbind (package BiocGenerics)
...="ANY"

Method Definition (Class "derivedDefaultMethod"):

function (..., deparse.level = 1) 
.Internal(cbind(deparse.level, ...))
<bytecode: 0x55ea1e147838>
<environment: namespace:base>

Signatures:
        ...  
target  "ANY"
defined "ANY"
Loading required package: stats4

Attaching package: ‘S4Vectors’

The following object is masked from ‘package:base’:

    expand.grid

Function: rbind (package BiocGenerics)
...="ANY"
...="FilterMatrix"
...="List"
...="RectangularData"

Method Definition:

function (..., deparse.level = 1) 
{
    if (!identical(deparse.level, 1)) 
        warning(wmsg("the rbind() method for RectangularData objects ", 
            "ignores the 'deparse.level' argument"))
    objects <- list(...)
    bindROWS(objects[[1L]], objects = objects[-1L])
}
<bytecode: 0x55ea1f894240>
<environment: namespace:S4Vectors>

Signatures:
        ...              
target  "RectangularData"
defined "RectangularData"
Method Definition:

function (..., deparse.level = 1) 
{
    if (!identical(deparse.level, 1)) 
        warning(wmsg("the cbind() method for DataFrame objects ", 
            "ignores the 'deparse.level' argument"))
    DataFrame(..., check.names = FALSE)
}
<bytecode: 0x55ea1ecf8730>
<environment: namespace:S4Vectors>

Signatures:
        ...        
target  "DataFrame"
defined "DataFrame"

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