cbind: Combine objects by rows or columns

In Bioconductor/BiocGenerics: S4 generic functions used in Bioconductor

Combine objects by rows or columns

Description

rbind and cbind take one or more objects and combine them by columns or rows, respectively.

NOTE: This man page is for the rbind and cbind S4 generic functions defined in the BiocGenerics package. See ?base::cbind for the default methods (defined in the base package). Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects (typically vector-like or matrix-like) not supported by the default methods.

Usage

rbind(..., deparse.level=1)
cbind(..., deparse.level=1)

Arguments

...	One or more vector-like or matrix-like objects. These can be given as named arguments.
deparse.level	See ?base::cbind for a description of this argument.

Value

See ?base::cbind for the value returned by the default methods.

Specific methods defined in Bioconductor packages will typically return an object of the same class as the input objects.

See Also

• base::cbind for the default rbind and cbind methods.

• showMethods for displaying a summary of the methods defined for a given generic function.

• selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.

• rbind,RectangularData-method and cbind,DataFrame-method in the S4Vectors package for examples of specific rbind and cbind methods (defined for RectangularData derivatives and DataFrame objects, respectively).

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

Examples

rbind  # note the dispatch on the '...' arg only
showMethods("rbind")
selectMethod("rbind", "ANY")  # the default method

cbind  # note the dispatch on the '...' arg only
showMethods("cbind")
selectMethod("cbind", "ANY")  # the default method

library(S4Vectors)
showMethods("rbind")
## The rbind() method for RectangularData derivatives:
selectMethod("rbind", "RectangularData")
## The cbind() method for DataFrame objects:
selectMethod("cbind", "DataFrame")

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