type: Accessing the type of an object

In BiocGenerics: S4 generic functions used in Bioconductor

Description

Get or set the type of an object.

Note that type and type<- are defined as S4 generic functions and what type means exactly (and what type() returns) depends on the objects for which type and/or type<- methods are defined.

Usage

type(x)
type(x) <- value

Arguments

x	Any object for which the type() getter or setter is defined. Note that objects will either: not support the getter or setter at all, or support only the getter, or support the getter and setter.
value	The type to set on x (assuming x supports the type() setter). value is typically (but not necessarily) expected to be a single string (i.e. a character vector of length 1).

Value

type(x) returns the type of x, typically (but not necessarily) as a single string (i.e. as a character vector of length 1).

See Also

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

• selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.

• type,ANY-method in the DelayedArray package for the default type method.

• type,PairwiseAlignments-method in the Biostrings package for an example of a specific type method (defined for PairwiseAlignments objects).

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

Examples

type
showMethods("type")

`type<-`
showMethods("type<-")

library(DelayedArray)
showMethods("type")
selectMethod("type", "ANY")  # the default "type" method

library(Biostrings)
showMethods("type")
## The type() method for PairwiseAlignments objects:
selectMethod("type", "PairwiseAlignments")

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