IlluminaMethylationAnnotation-class: Class 'IlluminaMethylationAnnotation'

In minfi: Analyze Illumina Infinium DNA methylation arrays

Description

This is a class for representing annotation associated with an Illumina methylation microarray. Annotation is transient in the sense that it may change over time, wheres the information stored in the IlluminaMethylationManifest class only depends on the array design.

Usage

## Constructor
IlluminaMethylationAnnotation(objectNames, annotation = "",
                              defaults = "", packageName = "")

## Data extraction
## S4 method for signature 'IlluminaMethylationAnnotation'
getManifest(object)

Arguments

object	An object of class IlluminaMethylationAnnotation.
annotation	An annotation character.
defaults	A vector of default choices for getAnnotation(what = "everything").
objectNames	a character with object names used in the package.
packageName	The name of the package this object will be contained in.

Value

An object of class IlluminaMethylationAnnotation.

Utilitues

In the following code, object is a IlluminaMethylationAnnotation.

getManifest(object)

Get the manifest object associated with the array.

Author(s)

Kasper Daniel Hansen [e-mail].

See Also

IlluminaMethylationManifest

minfi documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 4:53 p.m.