asmatrix: Turn a DGEList Object into a Matrix

In edgeR: Empirical Analysis of Digital Gene Expression Data in R

Description

Coerce a digital gene expression object into a numeric matrix by extracting the count values.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'DGEList'
as.matrix(x,...)

Arguments

x	an object of class DGEList.
...	additional arguments, not used for these methods.

Details

This method extracts the matrix of counts.

This involves loss of information, so the original data object is not recoverable.

Value

A numeric matrix.

Author(s)

Gordon Smyth

See Also

as.matrix in the base package or as.matrix in the limma package.

edgeR documentation built on Jan. 16, 2021, 2:03 a.m.