annotation: Accessing annotation information

In Bioconductor/BiocGenerics: S4 generic functions used in Bioconductor

Accessing annotation information

Description

Get or set the annotation information contained in an object.

Usage

annotation(object, ...)
annotation(object, ...) <- value

Arguments

object	An object containing annotation information.
...	Additional arguments, for use in specific methods.
value	The annotation information to set on object.

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.

• annotation,eSet-method in the Biobase package for an example of a specific annotation method (defined for eSet objects).

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

Examples

annotation
showMethods("annotation")

library(Biobase)
showMethods("annotation")
selectMethod("annotation", "eSet")

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