unlist: Flatten list-like objects

In Bioconductor/BiocGenerics: S4 generic functions used in Bioconductor

Flatten list-like objects

Description

Given a list-like object x, unlist produces a vector-like object obtained by concatenating (conceptually thru c) all the top-level elements in x (each of them being expected to be a vector-like object, typically).

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

Usage

unlist(x, recursive=TRUE, use.names=TRUE)

Arguments

x	A list-like object.
recursive, use.names	See ?base::unlist for a description of these arguments.

Value

See ?base::unlist for the value returned by the default method.

Specific methods defined in Bioconductor packages should behave as consistently as possible with the default method.

See Also

• base::unlist for the default unlist method.

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

• selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.

• unlist,List-method in the S4Vectors package for an example of a specific unlist method (defined for List objects).

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

Examples

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

Bioconductor/BiocGenerics documentation built on Nov. 17, 2024, 6:52 p.m.