which.min: What's the index of the first min or max value in an object?

In Bioconductor/BiocGenerics: S4 generic functions used in Bioconductor

What's the index of the first min or max value in an object?

Description

Determines the location (i.e. index) of the (first) minimum or maximum value in an object.

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

Usage

which.min(x, ...)
which.max(x, ...)

Arguments

x	An object, typically with a vector-, array-, or list-like semantic.
...	Additional arguments, for use in specific methods.

Value

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

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

Note

The default methods (defined in the base package) only take a single argument. We've added the ... argument to the generic functions defined in the BiocGenerics package so they can be called with an arbitrary number of effective arguments. This typically allows methods to add extra arguments for controlling/altering the behavior of the operation. Like for example the global argument supported by the which.max method for NumericList objects (defined in the IRanges package).

See Also

• base::which.min for the default which.min and which.max methods.

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

• selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.

• which.max,NumericList-method in the IRanges package for an example of a specific which.max method (defined for NumericList objects).

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

Examples

which.min
showMethods("which.min")
selectMethod("which.min", "ANY")  # the default method

which.max
showMethods("which.max")
selectMethod("which.max", "ANY")  # the default method

library(IRanges)
showMethods("which.max")
## The which.max() method for NumericList objects:
selectMethod("which.max", "NumericList")

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