featureNames: Retrieve feature and sample names from eSets.

In Bioconductor/Biobase: Biobase: Base functions for Bioconductor

Retrieve feature and sample names from eSets.

Description

These generic functions access the feature names (typically, gene or SNP identifiers) and sample names stored in an object derived from the eSet-class.

Usage

featureNames(object)
featureNames(object) <- value
sampleNames(object)
sampleNames(object) <- value

Arguments

object	Object, possibly derived from class eSet.
value	Character vector containing feature or sample names.

Value

featureNames returns a (usually long!) character vector uniquely identifying each feature.sampleNames returns a (usually shorter) character vector identifying samples.

Author(s)

Biocore

See Also

ExpressionSet-class, SnpSet-class

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