relist: Re-listing an unlist()ed object

In Bioconductor/BiocGenerics: S4 generic functions used in Bioconductor

Re-listing an unlist()ed object

Description

relist is a generic function with a few methods in order to allow easy inversion of unlist(x).

NOTE: This man page is for the relist S4 generic function defined in the BiocGenerics package. See ?utils::relist for the default method (defined in the utils package). Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects not supported by the default method.

Usage

relist(flesh, skeleton)

Arguments

flesh	A vector-like object.
skeleton	A list-like object. Only the "shape" (i.e. the lengths of the individual list elements) of skeleton matters. Its exact content is ignored.

Value

A list-like object with the same "shape" as skeleton and that would give flesh back if unlist()ed.

See Also

• utils::relist for the default relist method.

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

• selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.

• relist,ANY,List-method in the IRanges package for an example of a specific relist method (defined for when skeleton is a List object).

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

Examples

relist
showMethods("relist")
selectMethod("relist", c("ANY", "ANY"))  # the default method

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