acomp-class: Class '"acomp"'

In compositions: Compositional Data Analysis

Class "acomp"

Description

The S4-version of the data container "acomp" for compositional data. More information in acomp

Objects from the Class

A virtual Class: No objects may be directly created from it. This is provided to ensure that acomp objects behave as data.frame or structure under certain circumstances. Use acomp to create these objects.

Slots

.Data:

Object of class "list" containing the data itself

names:

Object of class "character" with column names

row.names:

Object of class "data.frameRowLabels" with row names

.S3Class:

Object of class "character" with the class string

Extends

Class "data.frame", directly. Class "compositional", directly. Class "list", by class "data.frame", distance 2. Class "oldClass", by class "data.frame", distance 2. Class "vector", by class "data.frame", distance 3.

Methods

coerce

signature(from = "acomp", to = "data.frame"): to generate a data.frame

coerce

signature(from = "acomp", to = "structure"): to generate a structure (i.e. a vector, matrix or array)

coerce<-

signature(from = "acomp", to = "data.frame"): to overwrite a composition with a data.frame

Note

see acomp

Author(s)

Raimon Tolosana-Delgado

References

see acomp

See Also

see acomp

Examples

showClass("acomp")

compositions documentation built on Aug. 21, 2025, 5:33 p.m.